 | Geology - 1870 - 506 pages
...an individual bee, visiting a succession of bean-flowers, keeps persistently to the one or the other plan. " It would thus appear that the habit is not...being slow in acquiring knowledge, others quicker." Perhaps the knowing ones have inherited the knack, in which case it is instinct in them, after all.... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 500 pages
...an individual bee, visiting a succession of bean-flowers, keeps persistently to the one or the other plan. " It would thus appear that the habit is not...being slow in acquiring knowledge, others quicker." Perhaps the knowing ones have inherited the knack, in which case it is instinct in them, after all.... | |
 | Biology - 1871 - 812 pages
...individual bee, visiting a succession of beau flowers, uniformly does either the one or the other. It would thus appear that the habit is not an instinct,...with the same experience some bees have acquired the Labit and others have not, we must admit, not only that these insects are intelligent, but that they... | |
 | 1871 - 372 pages
...individual bee keeps persistently to one or the other mode in visiting a number of bean flowers. " It would thus appear that the habit is not an instinct,...each case the result of individual experience. As others have not, we must admit not only that these insects are intelligent, but that they differ from... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 372 pages
...individual bee keeps persistently to one or the other mode in visiting a number of bean flowers. " It would thus appear that the habit is not an instinct,...each case the result of individual experience. As others have not, we must admit not only that these insects are intelligent, but that they differ from... | |
 | Biology - 1871 - 1016 pages
...individual bee, visiting a succession of beau flowers, uniformly does either the one or the other. It would thus appear that the habit is not an instinct,...species, but is in each case the result of individual ex* pcrience. As with the same experience some bees have acquired the babit and others have not, we... | |
 | Alpheus Spring Packard - Animal-plant relationships - 1877 - 412 pages
...but that an individual bee, visiting a succession of bean flowers, uniformly does one or the other. It would thus appear that the habit is not an instinct, belonging by inlieritance to the whole species, but is in each case the result of individual experience. As with... | |
 | Science - 1870 - 958 pages
...an individual bee, visiting a succession of bean-flowers, keeps persistently to the one or the other plan. " It would thus appear that the habit is not...that these insects are intelligent, but that they difler from each other in their degrees of intelligence, some being slow in acquiring knowledge, others... | |
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It would thus appear that the habit is not an instinct, belonging by inheritance to the whole species, but is in each case the result of individual experience. As with the same experience some bees have acquired the habit and others have not, we must... 