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Konrad Lorenz

<p>In 1973 Lorenz, along wiith Nikolaas Tinbergen&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_von_Frisch" title="Karl von Frisch" >Karl von Frisch</a>, were awarded the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine" title="Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine" >Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine</a>&nbsp;"for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns".&nbsp;The award recognized their studies on genetically programmed behaviour patterns, their origins, maturation and their elicitation by key stimuli. WIKI</p>

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Julian Huxley was a friend and mentor of the biologists and Nobel laureates&nbsp;<em >Konrad Lorenz</em>&nbsp;and Niko Tinbergen (Julian Huxley WIKI)</p>

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Nazi Eugenics (Wiki)

He was drafted into the <a title="Wehrmacht" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a> in 1941. He sought to be a motorcycle mechanic, but instead he was assigned as a military psychologist, conducting racial studies on humans in occupied <a title="Poznań" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozna%C5%84">Poznań</a> under <a title="Rudolf Hippius" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hippius">Rudolf Hippius</a>. The objective was to study the biological characteristics of "German-Polish half-breeds" to determine whether they were psychologically and physically fit to be allowed to reproduce. Those who were judged unfit were sent to concentration camps.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Lorenz#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> The degree to which Lorenz participated in the project is unknown, but the project director Hippius referred a couple of times to Lorenz as an "examining psychologist".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-patterns_9-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Lorenz#cite_note-patterns-9">[9]</a></sup></p>

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