Nikolaas Tinbergen
Tinbergen proved instinct is not a fog—it’s a cascade of measurable triggers, and we ignore its architecture at our peril.
Behavioural economics
What happens to economics once it admits people are not rational.
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B. F. Skinner
Skinner didn’t explain minds — he replaced them with measurable behaviour and its consequences.
Evolutionary game theory
John Maynard Smith
Evolutionary game theory is a precise, minimal framework that explains how genetically fixed behaviours persist without cognition. Its strength lies in its constraints — no rationality, no learning, no flexibility — and its explanatory reach is limited to frequency-dependent contests where inheritance and replication are well defined.
Konrad Lorenz
Imprinting isn’t love—it’s a hardwired species-recognition switch flipped in the first hours after hatching.