Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina viii
... action on the part of the animal , should be of a particularly marked and unmistakable kind , looking to the end which the action is said to have accomplished . Third , to tabulate all important observations recorded by unknown viii ...
... action on the part of the animal , should be of a particularly marked and unmistakable kind , looking to the end which the action is said to have accomplished . Third , to tabulate all important observations recorded by unknown viii ...
Pagina 3
... action which appears to indicate intelligent choice is not really action of the reflex kind . On this whole subject of mind - like and yet not truly mental action I shall have much to say in my subsequent treatise , where I shall be ...
... action which appears to indicate intelligent choice is not really action of the reflex kind . On this whole subject of mind - like and yet not truly mental action I shall have much to say in my subsequent treatise , where I shall be ...
Pagina 4
... actions under the influence of their appropriate stimuli may be com- pared to the actions of a machine under the manipu- lations of an operator ; when certain springs of action are touched by certain stimuli , the whole machine is ...
... actions under the influence of their appropriate stimuli may be com- pared to the actions of a machine under the manipu- lations of an operator ; when certain springs of action are touched by certain stimuli , the whole machine is ...
Pagina 5
... action ; I shall never regard it as fixing the lower limit of mental action . For it is clear that long before mind has advanced sufficiently far in the scale of development to become amenable to the test in question , it has probably ...
... action ; I shall never regard it as fixing the lower limit of mental action . For it is clear that long before mind has advanced sufficiently far in the scale of development to become amenable to the test in question , it has probably ...
Pagina 6
... actions as does the expression of similar emotions by a human being ; and therefore , if the evidence of corresponding mental states is held to be inadequate in the one case , it must in consistency be held similarly inadequate in the ...
... actions as does the expression of similar emotions by a human being ; and therefore , if the evidence of corresponding mental states is held to be inadequate in the one case , it must in consistency be held similarly inadequate in the ...
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Pagina 140 - ... the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvellous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.
Pagina 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. If this rhetoric did not immediately succeed, he would take the skirt of my coat between his teeth, and pull it with all his force.
Pagina i - Heredity." $1.50. 42. ANTS, BEES, AND WASPS. A Record of Observations of the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera. By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., FRS, DCL, LL.
Pagina 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.