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" In other words, just as, in the lifetime of the individual, adjustive actions which were originally intelligent may by frequent repetition become automatic, so in the lifetime of the species, actions originally intelligent may, by frequent repetition... "
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution - Page 832
by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1886
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Mental Evolution in Animals

George John Romanes - 1883 - 438 pages
...article on " Instinct," in the Encyclopedia Sritannica. manent instincts. Just as in the life-time of the individual adjustive actions which were originally...previous generations were performed intelligently. This mode of origin of instincts has been appropriately called the " lapsing of intelligence."* For...
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Science, Volume 1

John Michels (Journalist) - 1895 - 758 pages
...of the individual, adjustive actions which were originally intelligent may by frequent repetitions become automatic, so in the lifetime of the species actions originally intelligent may, by frequent repetitions and heredity, so write their effects on the nervous system that the latter is prepared...
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The Foundation of Death: A Study of the Drink-question

Axel Gustafson - 1884 - 624 pages
...individual, adaptive Sepm?ed * actions which were originally intelligent, may, by frequent 8™8erepetitions, become automatic ; so in the lifetime of the species,...prepared, even before individual experience, to perform adaptive actions mechanically, which in previous generations were performed intelligently — called...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 16

1884 - 1142 pages
...its growth to the effects of inherited observation. In other words, just as in the lifetime of the individual, adjustive actions which were originally...intelligent may, by frequent repetition and heredity, so unite their efforts on the nervous system that the latter is prepared, even before individual experience,...
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Selections from Previous Works with Remarks on Mr. G.J. Romanes' "Mental ...

Samuel Butler - 1884 - 354 pages
...intelligent become as it were stereotyped into permanent instincts. Just as in the lifetime of the individual adjustive actions which were originally...repetition become automatic, so in the lifetime of species actions originally intelligent may by frequent repetition and heredity so write their effects...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 26

1885 - 900 pages
...its growth to the effects of inherited observation. In other words, just as, in the lifetime of the individual, adjustive actions which were originally...previous generations, were performed intelligently. This mode of origin of instincts has been called by Mr. Lewes the " lapsing of intelligence," and it...
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Notices of the Proceedings, Volume 11

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1887 - 638 pages
...its growth to the effects of inherited observation. In other words, just as in the lifetime of the individual, adjustive actions which were originally...prepared, even before individual experience, to perform adjnstive actions mechanically which, in previous generations, were performed intelligently. This mode...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 13

1888 - 914 pages
...it were, stereotyped into permanent instincts. Just as in the life-time of the individual adaptive actions which were originally intelligent may by frequent...prepared, even before individual experience, to perform adaptive actions mechanically which in previous generations were performed intelligently. This mode...
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Science, Volume 1

John Michels (Journalist) - 1895 - 818 pages
...of the individual, adjustive actions which were originally intelligent may by frequent repetitions m X i O repetitions and heredity, so write their effects on the nervous system that the latter is prepared...
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Principles of Education

Frederick Elmer Bolton - 1910 - 810 pages
...species, actions originally intelligent may, by frequent repetition and heredity, so unite their efforts on the nervous system that the latter is prepared,...previous generations, were performed intelligently. 1 Pedagogical Seminary, X, p. 306. This mode of origin of instincts has been appropriately called the...
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