ANT 3541 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phoneme, Sociobiology, Morpheme
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Biobehavioral anthropology - lecture 4 - ant 3541-0001. Ibilibas - took lorenz" more general assumptions and he refined them into testable scientific categories - one of the categories was called a releasor - an environmental stimulus and it always causally linked to an innate releasing mechanism (irm) Irm (innate releasing mechanism) is the complete physiological and behavioral response of an animal to a releasor. The behavioral component of an irm is called a fixed action pattern . Konrad lorenz - played a role in human ethology almost as franz boas did for biology. Worked with the geese on his farm - the idea of imprinting. Discovered that the nervous system has a set of general instructions . Demonstrated the preparedness of the nervous systems. We can find these set of instruction in the mamamail species. Baby babel goes through every sound that humans are capable of making.
