Yet, the life and writings of Scottish novelist Naomi Mitchison demonstrate that the same people who would be able to provide new insights into animal behavior have often been excluded or marginalized by the scientific community. What was, and is, often overlooked in this research is that sexual behavior is frequently coded in scientists’ expectations of what counts as “sex.” The identity, perspective, and cultural contexts of the individuals observing and interpreting animal behavior can have profound effects on how they understand behaviors, despite ethology’s pervasive belief in the concept of objectivity. Scientists perpetuate the idea that we can figure out what sex is if we just get enough data - even though we don’t even have clear definitions for sex, sexual behavior, or sexuality. The study of sexual behaviors is just one part of a broader field of the study of animal behavior, more formally known as ethology. Moving back and forth among the hundreds of pairs I have set up for my experiments, I look for the classic behaviors established as fruit fly “courtship:” wing vibrations, genital licking, mounting.
Jacket with age toning/burning from tape on flaps and front and back panel some rubbing/wear to panels some soiling to panels' sunning to spine some rolling/creasing to top and bottom of pane's light chipping around spine top and bottom.I sit in front of a vial with two fruit flies in it, continuing a grand tradition of scientists sitting around watching, waiting for animals to have sex. Wear to board edges and corners tape to inside and outside of front and back boards securing jacket flaps front end pages torn and missing stamps to page edges stamp to title page age toning/burning to title page from tape age toning/burning to spine side of title page call number penciled to title page crayon to first page of chapter one pages browning page edges browned last page of book (175/176) appears to be a xerox copy pasted in with the writing at the top of the pages light/fading back end paper with age toning/burning from tape and residue from tape back board interior with numerous date stamps spine slanting.
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