ethology

There was a term in animal ethology that was popularised to the point it entered mainstream use.

Maybe to stay in scientific realms ethology would be a better starting point than a background in informatics/CS to handle these stuffs.

I ran into indirect realism quite a while ago, I think in neurophysiology or ethology to begin with.

You might also find these (and others from the series) interesting (though old); Science for Everyone – Ethology What Animals Do and Why?

To attain rigor, Ethology historically rejected anthropomorphism in favor of strict behavioral evidence, seeing as that is the primary empirically measurable evidence available.

As someone who works in ethology, that's a clever (but maybe expensive) idea.

Despite starting out from very skeptical roots, over time Ethology has found empirical evidence for some form of intelligence in more and more different species.

Genetics, biochemistry and ethology are light years beyond Darwin.

Depends if species is monogamous, basic ethology stuff.

If you're already into neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, I recommend looking one step up the emergence chain into Ethology too (biology's answer to psychology, across all living organisms).

> Genetics, biochemistry and ethology are light years beyond Darwin.

* Apply Ethology to one or two Claudes chatting.

Right, "alpha" means a lot of things in ethology, but the "alpha/beta/gamma" categorization that took hold in reactionary circles was specifically derived from the wolf studies.

What you call "the history of ethology" hopefully comprises the blunders that at different points in history "the scientific establishment" made regarding the "nature" of a) black men, b) women, c) gay people, d) irish people, e) jewish people, f)...

Look at the history of Ethology: It started with people assuming animals were automatons that couldn't think.

If you're going to refer to biology, be aware that the relevant subfield that defines the biological standard is in fact called Ethology.

Ethology (~comparative psychology) started with 'beware anthropomorphization' as a methodological principle.