 Does the organism learn to make new adjustments, or to modify old ones, in accordance with the results of its own individual experience? If it does so, the fact cannot be due merely to reflex action in the sense above described, for it is impossible that...  The American Naturalist - Page 5521896Full view - About this book
 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 550 pages
...experience ? If it does so, the fact cannot be due merely to reflex action in the sense above described, for it is impossible that heredity can have provided in advance for innovations upon, or alterations of, its machinery during the lifetime of a particular individual. In my next work I shall have occasion... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1883 - 438 pages
...? If it does so, the fact cannot be merely due to reflex action in the sense above described ; for it is impossible ( that heredity can have provided in advance for innovations upon or alterations of its machinery during the lifetime of a particular individual."/ />• Two points have to be observed... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 632 pages
...own individual experience ? If it does so, the fact cannot be due merely to reflex action .... for it is impossible that heredity can have provided in advance for innovations upon, or alterations of its machinery during the lifetime of a particular individual.' ' I may, however, here explain that... | |
 | James Mark Baldwin - 1894 - 544 pages
...action in the sense above described [ie, repetitions of old reactions under the law of habit] ; for it is impossible that heredity can have provided in...machinery during the lifetime of a particular individual." This difficulty, as we saw, led Romanes to throw over his own criterion of mind, and to hold that all... | |
 | James Mark Baldwin - 1894 - 526 pages
...Furthermore, he presents an argument for the ontogenetic view of the rise of selective reactions in saying:2 "It is impossible that heredity can have provided in advance for innovations upon or alterations of its own machinery during the 1 Loc. «'/., p. 60. lifetime of a particular individual." The inference... | |
 | 1896 - 1172 pages
...variation (or original endowment) works to secure new qualifications for the creature's survival; and its very working proceeds by securing a new application...individual." To this we are obliged to reply in summing up—as I have done before (ref. 2, p. 220)—we reach "just the state of things which Romanes declares... | |
 | Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1896 - 370 pages
...its own individual experience ? If it does so, the fact cannot be merely due to reflex action, for it is impossible that heredity can have provided in advance for innovations upon or alterations of its machinery during the lifetime of the particular individual." I do not quite understand the point... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1899 - 336 pages
...experience ? If it does so, the fact cannot be due to mere reflex action in the sense above described ; for it is impossible that heredity can have provided in advance for innovations upon, or alternations of its machinery during the lifetime of a particular individual." This points, though... | |
 | James Mark Baldwin - 1902 - 442 pages
...an original endowment, — works to secure new qualifications for the creature's survival, and its very working proceeds by securing a new application...obliged to reply in summing up — as I have done in another place: we reach ' just the state of things which Romanes declares impossible — heredity... | |
 | Howard Crosby Warren - 1896 - 418 pages
...variation (or original endowment) works to secure new qualifications for the creature's survival; and its very working proceeds by securing a new application..."it is impossible that heredity can have provided iu advance for innovations upon or alterations in its own machinery during the lifetime of a particular... | |
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