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Parenting Infants And Younger Youngsters

Instinct principle developed in the 1930s throughout the framework of ethology. It owes its basic ideas to William McDougall among others, and its elaboration mainly to Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen. Lorenz believed that instincts are physiological processes, and assumed they could be described as neuronal circuitry within the mind. But already Arnold Gehlen had