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ethologist|iːˈθɒlədʒɪst|
[f. L. ētholog-us, Gr. ἠθολόγ-ος (f. ἦθο-ς character + -λογος one who discourses) + -ist.]
†1. [= Gr. ἠθολόγος] One who portrays character by imitative gestures and facial expression; a mimic. Obs.—0
1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1775in Ash.
2. One who treats of, or is versed in, the science of ethology; a writer on ethics.
1828in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
3. One who is engaged or versed in the study of ethology 4.
1953New Biol. XIV. 7 Contemporary study of vertebrate behaviour is increasingly influenced by the school of ethologists, led by Nils [sic] Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. 1964Language XL. 215 Ethologists find little novelty in the proposal that there is a qualitative difference between human and nonhuman cognitive faculties. 1966R. Ardrey Territorial Imperative (1967) i. 27 Ethologists have assumed that there must be a neurological foundation in the central nervous system providing an anatomical switchboard for handling messages. |