Non-human animal behavior, its complexity and its exclusive research within holistic paradigm
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Reductionism, animal behavior, basic research, complexity, holistic paradigmAbstract
This article aims to give arguments why reductionism is inadequate for research in animal behavior in the 21st century and defends the idea that non-human animal behavior should no longer be studied under the reductionist approach, but should be understood through its opposite paradigm. In the 21st century, complexity is a concept that is becoming more important every day to understand the world and reality. Non-human animal behavior is a phenomenon that should not be alien to this concept and should be approached under the holistic paradigm that defends its importance to understanding animal biology. Figures in the history of science of the two centuries prior to the current one made great contributions, but it is necessary to reconsider all knowledge now because there is a more integrating paradigm, the holistic paradigm, whose vision is more complete and closer to the complex reality that science seeks to understand. Finally, reductionism is insufficient to give a complete and final explanation to the phenomena of animal behavior due to their multiple disadvantages and inconveniences in addition to their very narrow vision of Life.
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