Description: PrefaceThe investigations of recent years have added so much to our knowledge of the activities of animals that any adequate account of the whole field of animal behavior would require several volumes. The present work is confined to certain topics which bear upon the evolution of animal intelligence, and our treatment of even this part of the subject has been of necessity fragmentary. It has been our aim to give a fairly clear conception of the activities upon which intelligence is based, to show how intelligence is related to these activities, and to sketch the general course of the evolution of intelligence in the animal kingdom. No effort has been made to deal with all the classes of animals in which intelligence is manifested, and some groups which were not essential to the development of our theme have received little attention...
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Features: Index, Bibliographies
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Format: Hardcover
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Item Width: 1.25 i
Number of Pages: 296
Item Length: 5.5 in
Item Height: 8.5 in
Topic: Animal Intelligence, Evolution, Animal, Intelligence, Tropisms, Instinct, Molluscs, Lower Vertebrates, Mammals, Apes, Monkeys
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Vintage: Yes
Era: 1910s
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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Language: English
Publication Year: 1911
Item Weight: 1 lb 3 oz
Book Title: The Evolution of Animal Intelligence
Intended Audience: Adults
Author: Samuel Jackson Holmes
Original Language: English
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
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Genre: Animals & Pets, Environment, Nature & Earth
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Type: Science
