> biology beyond the very simplistic instinctual-automaton model This concept belongs to behaviorism, which is one school of thought in biology. Its massive an

> biology beyond the very simplistic instinctual-automaton model This concept belongs to behaviorism, which is one school of thought in biology. Its massive and unjustifiable dominance in the benighted 20th century notwithstanding, it is far from the only one. My experience has been that the results of ethological research into hymenopteran behavior, at least, yield far more predictive power than much of anything from the behaviorist school. It would not at all surprise me if this were one case in a much broader pattern.