Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... intelligence , while the second was to have treated of these facts in their relation to the theory of Descent . Finding , however , as I proceeded , that the material was too considerable in amount to admit of being comprised within the ...
... intelligence , while the second was to have treated of these facts in their relation to the theory of Descent . Finding , however , as I proceeded , that the material was too considerable in amount to admit of being comprised within the ...
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... intelligence have suddenly acquired a new and profound importance , from the proved probability of their genetic continuity with those of human intelli gence , it would remain true that their systematic arrange- ment is a worthy object ...
... intelligence have suddenly acquired a new and profound importance , from the proved probability of their genetic continuity with those of human intelli gence , it would remain true that their systematic arrange- ment is a worthy object ...
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... intelligence . Where we find , for instance , that an oyster profits by individual experience , or is able to perceive new relations and suitably to act upon the result of its perceptions , I think it sounds less unusual to speak of the ...
... intelligence . Where we find , for instance , that an oyster profits by individual experience , or is able to perceive new relations and suitably to act upon the result of its perceptions , I think it sounds less unusual to speak of the ...
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... intelligence is not so high . Indeed , it is not to be expected that the class of animals wherein the vegetative ' functions of nutri- tion and reproduction predominate so largely over the animal functions of sensation , locomotion ...
... intelligence is not so high . Indeed , it is not to be expected that the class of animals wherein the vegetative ' functions of nutri- tion and reproduction predominate so largely over the animal functions of sensation , locomotion ...
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... intelligence and non- intelligence . For , granting that the action is to a certain extent mechanical , we must still recognise that the animal while executing it must have remembered each of the two directions in which it had pulled ...
... intelligence and non- intelligence . For , granting that the action is to a certain extent mechanical , we must still recognise that the animal while executing it must have remembered each of the two directions in which it had pulled ...
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Page 360 - ... repast. I had not long habituated him to this taste of liberty, before he began to be impatient for the return of the time when he might enjoy it. He would invite me to the garden by drumming upon my knee, and by a look of such expression as it was not possible to misinterpret.
Page 171 - Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet.
Page i - ANIMAL LIFE AS AFFECTED BY THE NATURAL CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE.
Page 359 - ... knee. He was ill three days, during which time I nursed him ; kept him apart from his fellows, that they might not molest him (for, like many other wild animals, they persecute one of their own species that is sick) and, by constant care, and trying him with a variety of herbs, restored him to perfect health. No creature...
Page 11 - For my own part, I look upon it as upon the principle of gravitation in bodies, which is not to be explained by any known qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, nor from any laws of mechanism, but, according to the best notions of the greatest philosophers, is an immediate impression from the first mover, and the divine energy acting in the creatures.