ethology

/ee-thol-uh-jee, ih-thol-/US // iˈθɒl ə dʒi, ɪˈθɒl- //UK // (ɪˈθɒlədʒɪ) //

伦理学,生态学,道德学,人种学

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : the study of animal behavior with emphasis on the behavioral patterns that occur in natural environments.

Several reviewers missed that Morgan didn’t have any anthropological training, describing her as “a female anthropologist,” and “a scholarly woman, educated at Oxford in the fields of paleontology, ethology, and anthropology.”
I remark by anticipation that this expression implies a reference to Mill's Ethology, of which I shall have to speak.
As in Ethology and other deductive sciences, so in Statistics and History there are empirical laws.
It must itself depend on laws of mind and character (psychology and ethology).
Etholog′ic, -al, relating to ethology: treating of morality.