Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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... regard them merely as facts in Nature , have at least as great a claim to accurate classification as those phenomena of structure which constitute the sub- ject - matter of Comparative Anatomy . Leaving aside , therefore , the ...
... regard them merely as facts in Nature , have at least as great a claim to accurate classification as those phenomena of structure which constitute the sub- ject - matter of Comparative Anatomy . Leaving aside , therefore , the ...
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... regard only those facts which stood upon the authority of observers well known as com- petent ; but I soon found that this principle constituted much too close a mesh . Where one of my objects was to determine the upper limit of ...
... regard only those facts which stood upon the authority of observers well known as com- petent ; but I soon found that this principle constituted much too close a mesh . Where one of my objects was to determine the upper limit of ...
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... regard the flowing of a river or the blowing of the wind . Why ? First , because the objects are too remote in kind from my own organism to admit of my drawing any reasonable analogy between them and it ; and , secondly , because the ...
... regard the flowing of a river or the blowing of the wind . Why ? First , because the objects are too remote in kind from my own organism to admit of my drawing any reasonable analogy between them and it ; and , secondly , because the ...
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... regard it as fixing only the upper limit of non - mental 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 ...
... regard it as fixing only the upper limit of non - mental 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 ...
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... regard to the main divisions of mental operation , in order to define closely the meanings which I shall attach to certain terms relating to these divisions , and the use of which I cannot avoid . The terms sensation , perception ...
... regard to the main divisions of mental operation , in order to define closely the meanings which I shall attach to certain terms relating to these divisions , and the use of which I cannot avoid . The terms sensation , perception ...
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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.