Aubrey Manning Discussion (1/5) - Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins sits down with Aubrey Manning to discuss Ethology, their time at Oxford, the state of life on Earth, and more. This video is brought to you free online by RichardDawkins.net...
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Dawkins: Well, Aubrey, we've got a lot in common, we both trained in ethology, the biological study of animal behavior by Niko Tinbergen at Oxford, you perhaps 10 years ahead of me. How do you think ethology has changed a since our student days? Manning: Well you obviously speak of those times with affection and so do I. It was a wonderful introduction to Behavioral Research, Niko there with a a gang of students and we were a very tight knit kind of group, and he was like a great sort of uncle for us. I think the thing that's changed most is the emphasis that was then on animals cooperating in their lives that... okay you'd have conflict between two males but they will resolve this conflict and then they would court females and the male and...
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Dawkins: Well, Aubrey, we've got a lot in common, we both trained in ethology, the biological study of animal behavior by Niko Tinbergen at Oxford, you perhaps 10 years ahead of me. How do you think ethology has changed a since our student days? Manning: Well you obviously speak of those times with affection and so do I. It was a wonderful introduction to Behavioral Research, Niko there with a a gang of students and we were a very tight knit kind of group, and he was like a great sort of uncle for us. I think the thing that's changed most is the emphasis that was then on animals cooperating in their lives that... okay you'd have conflict between two males but they will resolve this conflict and then they would court females and the male and...
