Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1892 - 520 pagini |
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Pagina v
... whole is twofold . First , I have thought it desirable that there should be something resembling a text - book of the facts of Comparative Psy- chology , to which men of science , and also metaphysicians , may turn whenever they may ...
... whole is twofold . First , I have thought it desirable that there should be something resembling a text - book of the facts of Comparative Psy- chology , to which men of science , and also metaphysicians , may turn whenever they may ...
Pagina x
... whole shall have been completed . Therefore it is that in the present volume I have endeavoured , as far as the nature and circumstances of the inquiry would permit , to suppress anecdote . Nevertheless , although I have nowhere ...
... whole shall have been completed . Therefore it is that in the present volume I have endeavoured , as far as the nature and circumstances of the inquiry would permit , to suppress anecdote . Nevertheless , although I have nowhere ...
Pagina 3
... 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 concerned among other things with tracing the probable genesis of mind from non- mental antecedents . But ...
... 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 concerned among other things with tracing the probable genesis of mind from non- mental antecedents . But ...
Pagina 4
... whole machine is thrown into appropriate movement ; there is no room for choice , there is no room for uncertainty ; but as surely as any of these inherited mechanisms are affected by the stimulus with reference to which it has been ...
... whole machine is thrown into appropriate movement ; there is no room for choice , there is no room for uncertainty ; but as surely as any of these inherited mechanisms are affected by the stimulus with reference to which it has been ...
Pagina 7
... whole series of events com- prised in the stimulations and muscular movements may be due to reflex action alone . But now suppose that by a number of lessons the dog has been taught not to eat the meat when he is hungry until he ...
... whole series of events com- prised in the stimulations and muscular movements may be due to reflex action alone . But now suppose that by a number of lessons the dog has been taught not to eat the meat when he is hungry until he ...
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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.