Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina v
... occasion to acquaint themselves with the particular level of intelligence to which this or that species of animal attains . Hitherto the endeavour of assigning these levels has been almost exclu- sively in the hands of popular writers ...
... occasion to acquaint themselves with the particular level of intelligence to which this or that species of animal attains . Hitherto the endeavour of assigning these levels has been almost exclu- sively in the hands of popular writers ...
Pagina xi
... occasion to quote statements of fact , which in the present treatise are necessarily numerous , I have made a point of trying to quote verbatim . Only where I have found that the account given by an author or a correspondent might ...
... occasion to quote statements of fact , which in the present treatise are necessarily numerous , I have made a point of trying to quote verbatim . Only where I have found that the account given by an author or a correspondent might ...
Pagina 5
... occasion to consider this criterion of mind more carefully , and then it will be shown that as here stated the criterion is not rigidly ex- clusive , either , on the one hand , of a possibly mental element in apparently non - mental ...
... occasion to consider this criterion of mind more carefully , and then it will be shown that as here stated the criterion is not rigidly ex- clusive , either , on the one hand , of a possibly mental element in apparently non - mental ...
Pagina 7
... occasion to consider this problem with the close attention that it demands ; but in the present volume , which has to deal only with the pheno- mena of mind as such , I expressly pass the problem aside as one reserved for separate ...
... occasion to consider this problem with the close attention that it demands ; but in the present volume , which has to deal only with the pheno- mena of mind as such , I expressly pass the problem aside as one reserved for separate ...
Pagina 8
... occasion in the present volume to enter upon this subject . I may , however , point out one general con- sideration to which I shall throughout adhere . Taking it for granted that the external indications of mental processes which we ...
... occasion in the present volume to enter upon this subject . I may , however , point out one general con- sideration to which I shall throughout adhere . Taking it for granted that the external indications of mental processes which we ...
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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.