"Animal Behaviour" by C. Lloyd Morgan is a comprehensive exploration of the actions exhibited by creatures, studied through the lens of late 19th-century science. The book studies how lower and higher animals react and adapt, linking their actions to deeper evolutionary roots, as well as biology, basic awareness, and rational thought. It begins by defining what "behaviour" means on a small level in living creatures and then expands this definition to look at how animal behaviour can be triggered by organic cause and effect. Readers are guided through an explanation of cellular activity, moving toward a wider viewpoint on the evolutionary and mindful aspects of animal response, connecting the dots between their place in nature and their actions.
Animal Behaviour
By C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan
Discover the natural scientific reasons behind the actions of animals.
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About the AuthorConwy Lloyd Morgan, FRS 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 principle that played a major role in behaviourism, insisting that higher mental faculties should only be considered as explanations if lower faculties could not explain a behaviour.
Conwy Lloyd Morgan, FRS 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 principle that played a major 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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