| Niko Tinbergen |
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ORIGINS Born in The Hague , Netherlands , he is also noted as the brother of Jan Tinbergen , who won the first Bank Of Sweden Prize In Economic Sciences In Memory Of Alfred Nobel . He had a third eminent brother, Luuk Tinbergen . He studied Biology at Leiden University and later taught at the University Of Oxford . CONTRIBUTIONS He is well known for originating the four questions he believed should be asked of any animal behaviour, which were: # impact on the animal's chances of survival and reproduction? # ? # Development : how does the behaviour change with age, and what early experiences are necessary for the behaviour to be shown? # , and how might it have arisen through the process of Phylogeny ? They are still considered as the cornerstone of modern Ethology . REFERENCES
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