Nikolaas Tinbergen Quotes


Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.


Citations

Tinbergen, Nikolaas. "Ethology and Stress Diseases." Science, vol. 185, no. 4145, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 5 July 1974, pp. 20-27.

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Nikolaas Tinbergen
Nikolaas Tinbergen
  • Born: April 15, 1907
  • Died: December 21, 1988
  • Nationality: Dutch
  • Profession: Scientist

Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen FRS was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.