Animal Behaviour
by C. Lloyd Morgan
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About this eBook
- Author
- Morgan, C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd), 1852-1936
- Credits
- Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QL: Science: Zoology
- Subject
- Animal intelligence
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54462
- Release Date
- March 31, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
- 3.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.CHAPTER I ORGANIC BEHAVIOUR — 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
- 7.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
- 8.CHAPTER III INSTINCTIVE BEHAVIOUR — 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
- 9.CHAPTER IV INTELLIGENT 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
- 10.CHAPTER V SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR — I.— Imitation — II.— Intercommunication — III.— Social Communities of Bees and Ants — IV.—Animal Tradition — V.—The Evolution of Social Behaviour
- 11.CHAPTER VI THE FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS — I.— Impulse, Interest, and Emotion — II.— Play — III.— Courtship — IV.— Animal “Æsthetics” and “Ethics” — V.— The Evolution of Feeling and Emotion
- 12.CHAPTER VII THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR — I.— The Physiological Aspect — II.— The Biological Aspect — III.— The Psychological Aspect — IV.— Continuity in Evolution
- 13.INDEX — FOOTNOTES — Transcriber's Note
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