Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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... sufficient importance to be entertained , carefully to con- sider whether , from all the circumstances of the case as recorded , there was any considerable opportunity for mal- observation ; this principle generally demanded that the ...
... sufficient importance to be entertained , carefully to con- sider whether , from all the circumstances of the case as recorded , there was any considerable opportunity for mal- observation ; this principle generally demanded that the ...
Pagina 2
... sufficient , without the intervention of consciousness , to produce muscular movements of a highly co - ordinate and apparently intentional character . Thus , for instance , if a man has his back broken in such a way as to sever the ...
... sufficient , without the intervention of consciousness , to produce muscular movements of a highly co - ordinate and apparently intentional character . Thus , for instance , if a man has his back broken in such a way as to sever the ...
Pagina 3
... sufficient merely to make this general statement of the fact , that even within the experience supplied by our own organisms adaptive movements of a highly complex and therefore apparently purposive character may be performed without ...
... sufficient merely to make this general statement of the fact , that even within the experience supplied by our own organisms adaptive movements of a highly complex and therefore apparently purposive character may be performed without ...
Pagina 5
... sufficient for all the purposes of the present work , its more minute analysis had better be deferred till I shall ... sufficiently far in the scale of development to become amenable to the test in question , it has probably begun to ...
... sufficient for all the purposes of the present work , its more minute analysis had better be deferred till I shall ... sufficiently far in the scale of development to become amenable to the test in question , it has probably begun to ...
Pagina 7
... sufficient proof of mind in the latter . And this proof , as I have endeavoured to show , is in all cases and in its last analysis the fact of a living organism showing itself able to learn by its own individual experi- ence . Wherever ...
... sufficient proof of mind in the latter . And this proof , as I have endeavoured to show , is in all cases and in its last analysis the fact of a living organism showing itself able to learn by its own individual experi- ence . Wherever ...
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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.