So You Want to Become an Ethologist.
Ethologists often study one type of behavior(for example,
aggression) in a number of unrelated animals.
In fact, the Ethologist Richard Dawkins maintains that being gullible
actually helps us survive as children.
Some sociobiologists and Ethologists have attempted to comprehend human
and animal social behavior in terms of instincts.
Ethologist Frank Salter writes:
Relatively homogeneous societies invest more in public goods, indicating a higher level of public altruism.
Lorenz, an Ethologist who studied the phenomenon of aggression,
was also skeptical about self-preservation as a separate biological concept.
Ethologists have been particularly concerned with the evolution of behavior
and the understanding of behavior in terms of the theory of natural selection.
In one sense, the first modern Ethologist was Charles Darwin,
whose book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, influenced many future Ethologists.