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From: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Is ethology scientific?
Summary: you betcha
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Date: 29 Jun 91 22:48:50 GMT
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In article <45394@netnews.upenn.edu> rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe) writes:
>In article <9106272202.AA12658@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu>
>     gheller@YODA.EECS.WSU.EDU (Geoffrey Heller - CS216) writes:
>
>>I am curious to know if the methods of ethologists have attained any level
>>of credibility in recent scientific works pertaining to biology.  Note that
>>I am not referring to anthropomorphism, but ethology.  

	Yes, they have. For some information about ethology see
"Animal Behaviour - an evolutionary approach", by John Alcock.
It is a very well written intro college text on the subject.

Chris Colby
email: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu