Works by Richard W. Burkhardt
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- Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology.Richard W. Burkhardt &Hans Kruuk -2007 -Journal of the History of Biology 40 (3):565-575.
- The Spirit of System: Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology.Richard W. Burkhardt -1979 -Journal of the History of Biology 12 (1):203-204.
- Ethology, Natural History, the Life Sciences, and the Problem of Place.Richard W. Burkhardt -1999 -Journal of the History of Biology 32 (3):489 - 508.Investigators of animal behavior since the eighteenth century have sought to make their work integral to the enterprises of natural history and/or the life sciences. In their efforts to do so, they have frequently based their claims of authority on the advantages offered by the special places where they have conducted their research. The zoo, the laboratory, and the field have been major settings for animal behavior studies. The issue of the relative advantages of these different sites has been a (...) persistent one in the history of animal behavior studies up to and including the work of the ethologists of the twentieth century. (shrink)
- Lamarck, evolution, and the politics of science.Richard W. Burkhardt -1970 -Journal of the History of Biology 3 (2):275-298.
- Niko Tinbergen: A Message in the Archives.Richard W. Burkhardt -2016 -Journal of the History of Biology 49 (4):685-703.Just as biologists have their favored places for doing research, so do historians. As someone who likes working in archives, the most surprising thing the present author ever found was a particular letter that had been written to him by the ethologist Niko Tinbergen—but that Tinbergen had never sent. The letter included a detailed critique of the intellectual style and conceptual shortcomings of Tinbergen’s career-long friend and colleague Konrad Lorenz. The present author first saw the letter 3 years after Tinbergen’s (...) death and 10 years after the letter was composed. Here we discuss the contents and historical context of that letter. (shrink)
- Commentary: New Directions in the History of Ethology.Richard W. Burkhardt -2022 -Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 45 (1-2):189-199.Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 45, Issue 1-2, Page 189-199, June 2022.No categories
- The inspiration of Lamarck's belief in evolution.Richard W. Burkhardt -1972 -Journal of the History of Biology 5 (2):413-438.
- An orangutan in Paris: pondering Proximity at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in 1836.Richard W. Burkhardt -2018 -History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40 (1):20.When the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Paris learned in 1836 that it had the chance to buy a live, young orangutan, it was excited by the prospect. Specimens were the focus of the Museum’s activities, and this particular specimen seemed especially promising, not only because the Museum had very few orangutan specimens in its collection, but also because of what was perceived to be the orangutan’s unique place in the natural order of things, namely, at the very boundary between the (...) animal kingdom and humans. Frédéric Cuvier, the superintendent of the Museum’s menagerie, urged that studying the orangutan’s mental faculties would help resolve fundamental questions regarding the similarities and differences between animals and humans. Archival and printed sources allow one to reconstruct the orangutan’s capture, acquisition, and subsequent career at the menagerie in greater detail than has generally been possible for animals of nineteenth-century zoos. Scientists, artists, the public, the press, and even musicians sought to engage with the orangutan, seeing in it not just another ape or monkey but a special creature unto itself at the animal/human boundary. Key to their fascination with the orangutan was the question of proximity—just how close was the orangutan to humans? The orangutan’s story illuminates not only how the animal-human boundary was conceived at the time but also the problematic status of the zoo as a site for scientific research and the roles of scientific and non-scientific actors alike in constructing how the orangutan was understood. (shrink)
- Remembering Everett Mendelsohn.Richard W. Burkhardt -2023 -Journal of the History of Biology 56 (4):591-593.
- (1 other version)The J. H. B. Bookshelf.Paula Findlen,Ronald Rainger,Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis,Richard W. Burkhardt Jr &Diane Paul -1995 -Journal of the History of Biology 28 (2):369-379.
- Niko Tinbergen: The Ethologist as Field Naturalist.Richard W. Burkhardt -2007 -Biological Theory 2 (1):87-90.
- Ernst Mayr: Biologist-historian. [REVIEW]Richard W. Burkhardt -1994 -Biology and Philosophy 9 (3):359-371.Ernst Mayr''s historical writings began in 1935 with his essay Bernard Altum and the territory theory and have continued up through his monumentalGrowth of Biological Thought (1982) and hisOne Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought (1991). Sweeping in their scope, forceful in their interpretation, enlisted on behalf of the clarification of modern concepts and of a broad view of biology, these writings provide both insights and challenges for the historian of biology. Mayr''s general intellectual formation (...) was guided by the GermanBildung ideal, with its emphasis on synthetic and comprehensive knowledge. His understanding of how to write history was inspired further by the example of the historian of ideas Arthur Lovejoy. Some strengths and limitations of this approach are explored here through attention to Mayr''s treatment of the French biologist J.-B. Lamarck. It is contended that Mayr''s contributions to the history of biology are not restricted to his own very substantial historical writings but also include his encouragement of other scholars, his development of an invaluable archive of scientific correspondence, and his insistence that historians who write about evolution and related subjects acquire an adequate understanding of the principles of Darwinian biology. (shrink)
- Book Review: Hervé Le Guyader, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist, trans. by Majorie Grene , 302 pp., illus., $45.00. [REVIEW]Richard W. Burkhardt -2005 -Journal of the History of Biology 38 (1):167-169.
- Book Review: Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and the Animal Mind. [REVIEW]Richard W. Burkhardt -2000 -Science, Technology, and Human Values 25 (3):389-392.No categories
- Charlotte Sleigh, Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. viii+302. ISBN 0-8018-8445-4. £36.50. [REVIEW]Richard W. Burkhardt -2008 -British Journal for the History of Science 41 (3):447-449.No categories
- Donna C. Mehos. Science and Culture for Members Only: The Amsterdam Zoo Artis in the Nineteenth Century. 212 pp., illus., plates, bibl., index. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006. $49.95. [REVIEW]Richard W. Burkhardt -2008 -Isis 99 (1):201-202.
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Inédits de Lamarck. D'après les Manuscrits Conservés à la Bibliothèque Centrale du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Ed. by Max Vachon, Georges Rousseau, and Yyves Laissus. Preface by Georges Canguilhem. Postface by Pierre-P. Grassé. Paris: Masson 1972. Pp. 312. 80 francs. [REVIEW]Richard W. Burkhardt -1974 -British Journal for the History of Science 7 (2):192-194.No categories
- Laurent Loison. Qu'est‐ce que le néolamarckisme? Les biologistes français et la question de l'évolution des espèces. vi + 249 pp., illus., bibl., index. Paris: Vuibert, 2010. €27.55. [REVIEW]Richard W. Burkhardt -2012 -Isis 103 (1):195-196.
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Colloque International ‘Lamarck’. Tenu au Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, les 1–2 et 3 juillet 1971. Ed. by J. Schiller. Paris: Blanchard, 1971. Pp. 263. 28 francs. [REVIEW]Richard W. Burkhardt -1974 -British Journal for the History of Science 7 (1):93-94.No categories
- Pietro Corsi, Jean Gayon, Gabriel Gohau and Stéphane Tirard, Lamarck, philosophe de la nature. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006. Pp. xii+167 pp. ISBN 2-13-051976-8. €20.00. [REVIEW]Richard W. Burkhardt -2007 -British Journal for the History of Science 40 (4):611-613.
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