tinbergen in English

noun

family name; Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988), Dutch born English zoologist who co-founded (together with Konrad Lorenz) modern ethology

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1. Tinbergen was a founding trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.

2. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch.

3. The unique feature of human adaptability, emphasized by Tinbergen, is the cultural transmission of information between generations.

4. Nor should the approach advocated by Nobel Prize winner Nicholas Tinbergen for some types of emotional problems be overlooked.

5. Tinbergen suggested that the zigzag display results from the conflict felt by the male between attacking the female and fleeing from her.

6. 2In addition to Tinbergen (1974, 1975), see Welch (1973), Freeman (1976), Katz and Murphy (1992) and Autor, Katz and Krueger (1998), and Autor, Katz and Kearney (2008) on the canonical model