CHAPTER 1 (PAGES 1–16)
1. Honest, this animal researcher’s name is Fox. See his 1974 monograph for a complete description of the turkey and polecat experiment.
2. Sources for the robin and bluethroat information are Lack (1943) and Peiponen (1960), respectively.
3. Although several important similarities exist between this kind of automatic responding in humans and lower animals, there are some important differences as well. The automatic behavior sequences of humans tend to be learned rather than inborn, more flexible than the lock-step patterns of the lower animals, and responsive to a larger number of triggers.
4. Perhaps the common “because…just because” response of children asked to explain their behavior can be traced to their ...
