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In the 1920s and 1930s, the theoretical ideas concerning embryonic behavior were polarized in two schools of thought: Coghill, on the basis of his pioneer studies of the motility of the salamander, Ambystoma, considered behavior to be integrated from beginning to end, from the first movements of the head to swimming, walking, feeding and so forth. He generalized this concept to cover all vertebrates, including man. His ideas have been very influential, up to this day. The opposing school, including most of those working on mammalian fetuses, led by W. F. Windle, held the view that local reflexes were the building units of behavior. They were thought to be integrated secondarily into complex action systems. Both viewpoints seem now untenable as generalized theories of behavior development.
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Hamburger, V. (1970). Embryonic Motility in Vertebrates. In: Neuroembryology. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6743-5_11
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