Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... observation of the more intelligent individuals among men . Therefore I soon found that I had to choose between neglecting all the more important part of the evidence -- and consequently in most cases feeling sure that I had fixed the ...
... observation of the more intelligent individuals among men . Therefore I soon found that I had to choose between neglecting all the more important part of the evidence -- and consequently in most cases feeling sure that I had fixed the ...
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... observed , that instinct passes into reason by imperceptible degrees ; so that actions in the main instinctive are very commonly tempered with what Pierre Huber calls a little dose of judgment or reason , ' and vice versa . But here ...
... observed , that instinct passes into reason by imperceptible degrees ; so that actions in the main instinctive are very commonly tempered with what Pierre Huber calls a little dose of judgment or reason , ' and vice versa . But here ...
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... observation would be sufficient to induce me to attribute conscious determination to these microscopical organisms ... observations of the sundry microscopists who detail facts more or less similar to the above , with expressions of ...
... observation would be sufficient to induce me to attribute conscious determination to these microscopical organisms ... observations of the sundry microscopists who detail facts more or less similar to the above , with expressions of ...
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... observed some actinophorous rhizopods creeping about them , which had similarly shaped grains of starch in their interior ; and having determined the nature of these grains in both by the addition of iodine , I cleansed the glasses ...
... observed some actinophorous rhizopods creeping about them , which had similarly shaped grains of starch in their interior ; and having determined the nature of these grains in both by the addition of iodine , I cleansed the glasses ...
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... observed this depending organ to be moved first to one side and then to the other side of the bell , in order to give suck to the larvæ on the sides of the bell - the larvæ dipping their long noses into the nutrient fluids which that ...
... observed this depending organ to be moved first to one side and then to the other side of the bell , in order to give suck to the larvæ on the sides of the bell - the larvæ dipping their long noses into the nutrient fluids which that ...
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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.