Animal Behaviour
Published on 9. July 2017
733 pages
978-3-7364-1870-7 (ISBN)
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Conwy Lloyd Morgan was a British ethologist and psychologist. He is remembered for his theory of emergent evolution, and for the experimental approach to animal psychology now known as Morgan's canon, a specialised form of Occam's razor which played a role in behaviourism, insisting that higher mental faculties should only be considered as explanations if lower faculties could not explain a behaviour.
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- Intro
- ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- I.-Behaviour in General
- II.-Behaviour of Cells
- III. Corporate Behaviour
- IV.-The Behaviour of Plants
- V.-Reflex Action
- VI.-The Evolution of Organic Behaviour
- CHAPTER II CONSCIOUSNESS
- I.-The Conscious Accompaniments of Certain Organic Changes
- II.-The Early Stages of Mental Development
- III.-Later Phases in Mental Development
- IV.-The Evolution of Consciousness
- I.-Definition of Instinctive Behaviour
- II.-Instinctive Behaviour in Insects
- III.-The Instinctive Behaviour of Young Birds
- IV.-The Conscious Aspect of Instinctive Behaviour
- V.-The Evolution of Instinctive Behaviour
- I.-The Nature of Intelligent Behaviour
- II.-Intelligent Behaviour in Insects
- III.-Some Results of Experiment
- IV.-The Evolution of Intelligent Behaviour
- V.-The Influence of Intelligence on Instinct
- III.-Social Communities of Bees and Ants
- IV.-Animal Tradition
- V.-The Evolution of Social Behaviour
- I.-Impulse, Interest, and Emotion
- IV.-Animal "Æsthetics" and "Ethics"
- V.-The Evolution of Feeling and Emotion
- I.-The Physiological Aspect
- II.-The Biological Aspect
- III.-The Psychological Aspect
- IV.-Continuity in Evolution
- INDEX
- FOOTNOTES
