Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... manner with his immense stores of information , as well as with his valuable judgment on sundry points of difficulty , but has also been kind enough to place at my disposal all the notes and clippings on animal intelligence which he has ...
... manner with his immense stores of information , as well as with his valuable judgment on sundry points of difficulty , but has also been kind enough to place at my disposal all the notes and clippings on animal intelligence which he has ...
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... manner in which science looks upon it , or , at least , the manner in which it will always be looked upon throughout the present work . Without concerning ourselves with the origin of in- stincts , and so without reference to the theory ...
... manner in which science looks upon it , or , at least , the manner in which it will always be looked upon throughout the present work . Without concerning ourselves with the origin of in- stincts , and so without reference to the theory ...
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George John Romanes. defining instinct in a manner which shall be formally exclusive , on the one hand of reflex action , and on the other of reason . As Virchow truly observes , it is diffi- cult or impossible to draw the line between ...
George John Romanes. defining instinct in a manner which shall be formally exclusive , on the one hand of reflex action , and on the other of reason . As Virchow truly observes , it is diffi- cult or impossible to draw the line between ...
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... manner as the term reason is so opposed . This is a point which , for the sake of clearness , I desire the reader to retain in his memory . I shall always speak of intelligence and intellect in antithesis to instinct , emo- tion , and ...
... manner as the term reason is so opposed . This is a point which , for the sake of clearness , I desire the reader to retain in his memory . I shall always speak of intelligence and intellect in antithesis to instinct , emo- tion , and ...
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... manner in which they avoid collisions be attributed entirely to repulsions set up in the currents which by their movements they create , any such mechanical explanation certainly cannot apply to the small creatures seeking one another ...
... manner in which they avoid collisions be attributed entirely to repulsions set up in the currents which by their movements they create , any such mechanical explanation certainly cannot apply to the small creatures seeking one another ...
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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.