ArticleBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte2022
"It Felt More like a Revolution." How Behavioral Ecology Succeeded Ethology, 1970-1990.
Article in Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Stress in the social context: a behavioural and eco-evolutionary perspective.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Review
- The early rise and spread of evolutionary game theory: perspectives based on recollections of early workers.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Ethologists in the Kindergarten: Natural Behavior, Social Rank, and the Search for the "Innate" in Early Human Ethology (1960s-1970s).Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte · 2022Article
- Critical Periods in Science and the Science of Critical Periods: Canine Behavior in America.Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte · 2022Article
- "It Felt More like a Revolution." How Behavioral Ecology Succeeded Ethology, 1970-1990.Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte · 2022Article
- Genetic conflicts and the case for licensed anthropomorphizing.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
As soon as ethology's status diminished in the early 1970s, it was confronted with two successor disciplines, sociobiology and behavioral ecology. They were able to challenge ethology because it no longer provided markers of strong disciplinarity such as theoretical coherence, leading figures and a clear identity. While behavioral ecology developed organically out of the UK ethological research community into its own disciplinary standing, sociobiology presented itself as a US competitor to the ethological tradition. I will show how behavioral ecology took the role of legitimate heir to ethology by rebuilding a theoretical core and an intellectual sense of community, while sociobiology failed to use its public appeal to reach disciplinary status. Meanwhile, ethology changed its disciplinary identity to encompass all biological studies of animal behavior.
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