Beastly Behavior; BEHIND THE MIRROR A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge. By Konrad Lorenz. Translated by Ronald Taylor. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. 261 pp. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $10. Psychology
By HOWARD GARDNER ();
August 21, 1977,
, Section The New York Times Book Review, Page 210, Column , words
INSPIRED by the example of the pioneering ethologist Konrad Lorenz, students of animal and human behavior have fashioned ethograms: de tailed descriptions of behaviors that are displayed by all members of a species. Most fascinating are fixed action patterns--complex sequences of acts that appear almost from birth in fully developed form, provided only that a stimulus of certain type has been perceived, usually during a critical period of the creature's development.
August 21, 1977
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