William E Ritter

Animal and Human Conduct

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1928, this title looks at the link between animal and human conduct. It had long been recognized on the basis of their activities that many animals possess minds, and that these are similar in a considerable number of respects to human minds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780815367352
• ISBN-10: 081536735X
• Artikelnr.: 66558072

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Ability of Living Beings to Exist and Develop
Despite Adverse Conditions: The Phenomenon of Adaption 3. The Problem of
Man's Origin and Kinship: Factual Evidence and its Proper Treatment 4. The
Problem of Man's Origin and Kinship (cont.): Certainty and Probability as
to Man's Evolution 5. Success and Failure in Animal Activity 6. Successful
Animal Activity 7. Maladaptive Activity Resulting in Waste of Time and
Energy 8. Maladaptive Activity Resulting in Waste of Useful Materials 9.
Waste of Useful Materials (cont.) Among Mammals 10. Maladaptive Activity
Resulting in Injury to Kind 11. Maladaptive Activity Resulting in
Self-Injury 12. Self-Injury (cont.) Among Birds 13. Self-Injury (cont.)
Among Mammals 14. Maladaptive Activity in Monkeys and Apes 15. Maladaptive
Activity Among Low-Cultured Human Beings 16. Maladaptive Activity Among
High-Cultured Human Beings 17. The Elements of Man's Physical Structure
Which Enable him to be the Most Actively Adaptive of All Living Beings.
Bibliography. Index.