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A RECENT symposium on imprinting1 focuses attention on a very important aspect of animal behaviour. Although Thorpe2 and Verplank3 have emphasized that imprinting should be considered in relation to other types of learning, one aspect which does not appear to have received much consideration is the question of the relevance of imprinting to ideas on the evolution of learning and of instinctive behaviour.
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EWER, R. Imprinting in Animal Behaviour. Nature 177, 227–228 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177227b0
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