ABSTRACT
The status of comparative psychology as a discipline has been plagued with doubts and uncertainties for a very long time. These have often been brought to the surface by external attack, most seriously in recent years from sociobiology. This particular attack has been so serious in fact that some comparative psychologists have capitulated, proclaiming the final demise of their own discipline. Others are resisting or attempting to find a living accommodation with the source of the threat. A less dramatic response has been simply to give up the label of “comparative psychology” and proceed as before under some less committing rubric.
