ethology

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Their complex of social interactions, social standings, communication, sexual conduct - their entire ethology has been charted without one written word to guide us in constructing a Manual of Social Behavior for Honey Bees.

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  1. noun The scientific study of animal behavior, especially as it occurs in a natural environment.
  2. noun The study of human ethos and its formation.

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  • With a good enough understanding of biochemistry, ethology, and ecology, we ought to be able to do that. —  AnalogSFF,March2008
  • I realize that's a tall order, especially the part involving ethology (animal behavior). —  AnalogSFF,March2008
  • Mayr (1982) can go on to promote his definition to a status of extreme importance: "Because the species is one of, if not the most significant unit of evolution, of systematics, of ecology, of ethology, the species is as important a unit of biology as a" cell "is a precisely definable unit." —  Jennifer Marohasy
  • Not only was she a brilliant philosopher but she also was also extremely knowledgable about social cognition, social psychology, ethology, cognitive neuroscience, and consciousness studies. —  fragments of consciousness
  • The behavior and significant influence on, or can even be said mental processes, both human and non - to control, human behavior, though human, can be described through animal historically many cultures and philosophers cognition, ethology, evolutionary have for various reasons discouraged psychology, and comparative psychology allowing this influence to go unchecked. as well. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French éthologie, from Latin ēthologia, art of depicting character, from Greek ēthologiā : ēthos, character; see ethos + logos, speech, expression; see -logy.

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  1. = French éthologie = Portuguese ethologia = Italian etologia; in sense based on the moral sense of ethos, ethics; in form from Latin ethologia, from Greek ἠθολογία, the art of depicting character by mimic gestures, from ἠθολόγος, Latin ethologus, depicting, or one who depicts, character by mimic gestures, from Greek ἠθος, character, manners, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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/əˈθɑlədʒi/
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