Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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... insects ; but after consulting with the publishers , and also with Sir John Lubbock , it has seemed to me undesirable to omit these chapters on account of the circumstances here stated . For , on the one hand , the facts will not lose ...
... insects ; but after consulting with the publishers , and also with Sir John Lubbock , it has seemed to me undesirable to omit these chapters on account of the circumstances here stated . For , on the one hand , the facts will not lose ...
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... INSECT AND CTHER AGENCIES . By the Rev. GEORGE HENSLOW , M. A. , F. L. S. , F.G.S. With 88 Illustrations . $ 1.75 . 64. ON THE SENSES , INSTINCTS , AND INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS , WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INSECTS . By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK ...
... INSECT AND CTHER AGENCIES . By the Rev. GEORGE HENSLOW , M. A. , F. L. S. , F.G.S. With 88 Illustrations . $ 1.75 . 64. ON THE SENSES , INSTINCTS , AND INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS , WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INSECTS . By Sir JOHN LUBBOCK ...
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... insect is a safe guide to the inferring of mental states - particularly in view of the fact that in many respects ... insects , I think the most we can confidently assert is that the known facts of human psychology furnish the best ...
... insect is a safe guide to the inferring of mental states - particularly in view of the fact that in many respects ... insects , I think the most we can confidently assert is that the known facts of human psychology furnish the best ...
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... insect may be widely different from those of a man , and yet most probably the nearest conception that we can form of their true nature is that which we form by assimilating them to the pattern of the only mental states with which we ...
... insect may be widely different from those of a man , and yet most probably the nearest conception that we can form of their true nature is that which we form by assimilating them to the pattern of the only mental states with which we ...
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... insects has been so considerably extended , that in here rendering a condensed epitome of our knowledge in this most interesting branch of comparative psychology , it will be found that the chapter is constituted principally of a ...
... insects has been so considerably extended , that in here rendering a condensed epitome of our knowledge in this most interesting branch of comparative psychology , it will be found that the chapter is constituted principally of a ...
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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.