Abstract
Biology, a science which studies the structure and function of living organisms and the laws of their evolution, has long given a major place to the behavior of separate individuals and their associations. In coming to an understanding of the behavioral mechanisms of animals and determining the adaptive significance of the elementary components of behavior, human beings have seen analogues of their own behavior in that of animals from the very first stages of their social development. Later it became increasingly evident that in addition to certain similarities, there were also fundamental differences in behavior between man and animals.