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Biologist, specialist in the biology of behaviour and in particular human ethology, studied with Konrad Lorenz and Wilhelm von Marinelli. Head of a research group within the Max Planck Institute for Behavioural Physiology, professor of Zoology at the University of Munich. Has carried out many research expeditions. Author of a wide number of scientific articles and books.

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Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. The biological unity of mankind: Human ethology, concepts and implications. Prospects 7, 163–183 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02196076

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