ABSTRACT
First published in 1984. In this collection of essays, Schneirla is identified as a scientist and citizen unafraid to hold and present unpopular ideas. Schneirla had always been opposed to the hereditarian views that allowed for the politicalization of psychology and spoke out early against the idea of the genetic basis of behavior. It is fitting that his ideas, which still form the nexus of the major theoretical criticism of classical ethology, now can be seen to stand in opposition to the hereditarian views of socio-biology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|7 pages
Introduction
part II|48 pages
Prologue
part III|97 pages
Evolutionary Issues
part IV|65 pages
Issues of Ontogeny
chapter 11|29 pages
Sensory/Perceptual Functioning During Early Infancy
The Implications of a Quantitative Basis for Responding
chapter 12|23 pages
Levels of Communicative Competency in the Chimpanzee
Pre-Representational and Representational
part V|68 pages
Issues in the Study of Social Behavior
chapter 15|18 pages
The Schneirla/Birch Trophallaxis Hypothesis
Reformulation in Relation to Maternal Behavior in the Rat