Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... result or correlative of a chain of physical sequences due to a physical stimulation , it is enough to point to the ... results of its own individual experience ? If it does so , the fact cannot be due merely to reflex action in the ...
... result or correlative of a chain of physical sequences due to a physical stimulation , it is enough to point to the ... results of its own individual experience ? If it does so , the fact cannot be due merely to reflex action in the ...
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... result of experience ; at first , therefore , the action of closing the eyelids in order to protect the eyes may be said to be instinctive , in that it involves the mind - element : 1 yet it afterwards becomes a reflex which asserts ...
... result of experience ; at first , therefore , the action of closing the eyelids in order to protect the eyes may be said to be instinctive , in that it involves the mind - element : 1 yet it afterwards becomes a reflex which asserts ...
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... result of its perceptions , I think it sounds less unusual to speak of the oyster as dis- playing intelligence than as displaying reason . On this account I shall use the former term to signify the lower degrees of the ratiocinative ...
... result of its perceptions , I think it sounds less unusual to speak of the oyster as dis- playing intelligence than as displaying reason . On this account I shall use the former term to signify the lower degrees of the ratiocinative ...
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... result of natural selection . Some species of medusa - notably Sarsia - seek the light , crowding into the path of a beam , and following it actively if moved . They derive advantage from so doing , because certain small crustacea on ...
... result of natural selection . Some species of medusa - notably Sarsia - seek the light , crowding into the path of a beam , and following it actively if moved . They derive advantage from so doing , because certain small crustacea on ...
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... result of its successful exploration , for both then started along the same track , and disappeared over the wall.1 In this case the fact must be accepted , seeing that it stands on the authority of an accurate observer , and is of so ...
... result of its successful exploration , for both then started along the same track , and disappeared over the wall.1 In this case the fact must be accepted , seeing that it stands on the authority of an accurate observer , and is of so ...
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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.