Mind in evolutionMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1915 - 469 pages |
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adaptation adjustment afferent nerve Amoeba animal intelligence appears Assimilation association attribute basis behaviour bolt called catch caterpillar character chick chimpanzee cinnabar claw Comparative Psychology complex conation conception concrete experience consciousness correlation definite determined direct distinct door effect elements evidence evolution excitement fact feeling function grasped habit hereditary heredity human ideas impulse individual inference instances instinct intelligence Jack kind larva larvæ lever Lloyd Morgan mammals means mechanical ment merely method mind modified monkey moral movements natural selection nature nest nitric acid object once operation organisation organism particular perception Practical Judgment present protoplasm pull purpose push reaction recognised reflex action relation response result revived scrabbling seems seen sense sensori-motor species spider stage Stentor stick stickleback stimulus string structure success syllogism tendency thing tion trial tried wasp whole
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Page 157 - ALL'S over, then: does truth sound bitter As one at first believes? Hark, 'tis the sparrows' good-night twitter About your cottage eaves! • And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly, I noticed that, to-day; One day more bursts them open fully — You know the red turns grey.
Page 89 - With this encumbrance he could not withdraw himself. Finding this, he reluctantly disgorged the precious morsel, which began to move off. This was too much for snake philosophy to bear, and the toad was again seized ; and again, after violent efforts to escape, was the snake compelled to part with it.
Page 76 - Thus one solitary wasp, Sphex flavipennis, which provisions its nest with small grasshoppers, when it returns to the cell, leaves the victim outside, and goes down for a moment to see that all is right. During her absence M. Fabre moved the grasshopper a little. Out came the Sphex, soon found her victim, dragged it to the mouth of the cell, and left it as before. Again and again M. Fabre moved the grasshopper, but every time the Sphex did exactly the same thing, until M. Fabre was tired out.
Page 270 - By an articulate idea is meant one ' in which - comparatively distinct elements are held in a comparatively distinct relation. Thus, that a bolt must be pushed back is a crude idea ; that it must be pushed back so as to clear a staple, a relatively articulate one, implying a distinction between the parts of the object perceived (the bolt and its staples), and an appreciation of the relation between them.
Page 84 - Huber found it was with a caterpillar, which makes a very complicated hammock ; for if he took a caterpillar which had completed its hammock up to, say, the sixth stage of construction, and put it into a hammock completed up only to the third stage, the caterpillar simply re-performed the fourth, fifth, and sixth stages of construction. If, however, a caterpillar were taken out of a hammock made up, for instance, to the third stage, and were put into one finished up to the sixth stage, so that much...
Page 264 - Both being in a room at the same time, one of them, the larger, had a bone, and when he had left it the smaller dog went to take it, the larger one growled, and the other retired to a corner. Shortly afterwards the larger dog went out, but the other did not appear to notice this, and at any rate did not move. A few minutes later the large dog was heard to bark out of doors ; the little dog then, without a moment's hesitation, went straight to the bone and took it. It thus appears quite evident that...
Page 289 - ... and throws a shawl back over his head, holding it by the two corners so that it falls down his back ; he then throws it forward with all his strength, still holding on by the corners ; thus it goes out far in front of him and covers the nut, which he then draws towards him by pulling in the shawl. When his chain becomes twisted round the bars of a ' clotheshorse ' (which is given him to run about upon), and thus too short for his comfort, he looks at it intently and pulls it with his fingers...
Page 116 - ... which stole and ate it. In a few minutes all the caterpillars were cleared off. Later in the day they were given some more of these edible caterpillars, which were eaten freely; and then some cinnabar larvae. One chick ran, but checked himself, and, without touching the caterpillar, wiped his bill — a memory of the nasty taste being apparently suggested by association at sight of the yellow-and-black caterpillar. Another seized one, and dropped it at once. A third subsequently approached a...
Page 442 - Tho mundane goal of the evolutionary movement is " the mastery by the human mind of the conditions, internal as well as external, of its life and growth.
Page 64 - A cavity was formed in the anterior part of Amoeba c, reaching back nearly or quite to its middle, and much more than sufficient to contain the ball b. Amoeba a now turned into a new path ; Amoeba c followed (Fig.