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The recent controversies surrounding the topic of imprinting are an intellectual legacy worthy of those scientific innovators Douglas Spalding and Charles Otis Whitman, who, in the late 1800s, were the respective discoverers of what we now call filial and sexual imprinting. It was Konrad Lorenz’s imaginative speculations in 1935 concerning the nature and role of the two types of imprinting that eventually inspired the intellectually valuable controversy and experimentation that began in the early 1950s and which persists somewhat abated to the present day.
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Gottlieb, G. (1989). Imprinting. In: Learning and Memory. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6778-7_14
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