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I. Is there a Science of Comparative Psychology? “IN the family of the sciences Comparative Psychology may claim nearest kinship with Comparative Anatomy; for just as the latter aims at a scientific comparison of the bodily structures of organisms, so the former aims at a similar comparison of their mental structures.” These words form the opening sentence of Mr. G. J. Romanes' Introduction to his recently pub lished volume on “Mental Evolution in Animals,” and in a footnote he is careful to remind us that the phrase “mental structures” is used in a metaphorical sense. Let us consider how far a comparison of the mental structures of animals, even in a metaphorical sense, is possible.
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MORGAN, C. Instinct . Nature 29, 370–374 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029370a0
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