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The term ethology derives from the Greek word èthos ( ήθος ), meaning character.

Other words that derive from ethos include ethics and ethical.

The term was first popularized by American myrmecologist William Morton Wheeler in 1902.

An earlier, slightly different sense of the term was proposed by John Stuart Mill in his 1843 < cite > System of Logic </ cite >.

He recommended the development of a new science, " ethology ," the purpose of which would be explanation of individual and national differences in character, on the basis of associationistic psychology.

This use of the word was never adopted.