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Kortlandt Demonstration With Goat
Kortlandt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adriaan Kortlandt (1918–2009), Dutch ethologist * Frederik Kortlandt (born 1946), Dutch linguist See also * Cortlandt (other) Cortlandt may refer to: Places *Cortlandt, New York, a town in Westchester County, New York ** Cortlandt (Metro-North station) ** Cortlandt Manor, New York, an area of the town ** Cortlandt Town Center, a shopping center in the town *Cortlandt Str ... {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriaan Kortlandt
Prof. Dr. Adriaan Kortlandt (25 January 1918, Rotterdam - 18 October 2009, Amsterdam) was a Dutch ethologist. He was famous for his work on displacement activities (Dutch: ''overspronggedrag)'' and the hierarchy of instincts. Already in the thirties he realised the common characteristics between instincts in humans and other animals. In one of his experiments in Western Africa he exposed a stuffed panther with an electronic moving head to chimpanzees, who attacked it with sticks, thus illustrating to which extent early man could have kept wild animals at bay even before spears and other weapons were invented. He also was the author of the "Rift Valley theory",Kortlandt, A. (1972) - ''New perspectives on ape and human evolution'', Amsterdam, Stichting voor Psychobiologie. better known under the name given by French paleoanthropologist Yves Coppens Yves Coppens (9 August 1934 – 22 June 2022) was a French anthropologist. A graduate from the University of Rennes and Sorbonne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederik Kortlandt
Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt (born 19 June 1946) is a Dutch former professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He writes on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general, and Proto-Indo-European, though he has also published studies of languages in other language families. He has also studied ways to associate language families into super-groups such as controversial Indo-Uralic. Biography Kortlandt was born on 19 June 1946 in Utrecht. Kortlandt, along with George van Driem and a few other colleagues, is one of the proponents of the Leiden School of linguistics, which describes language in terms of a meme or benign parasite. Kortlandt holds five degrees from the University of Amsterdam: * B.A., 1967, Slavic Linguistics and Literature * B.A., 1967, mathematics and economics * M.A., 1969, Slavic linguistics * M.A., 1970, mathematical economics * Ph.D., 1972, mathematical linguistics He obtained his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
