Modern Biology and Psychology

Abstract

THIS very interesting volume is nearly equally divided between the two subjects indicated by its title. In the earlier chapters we have excellent accounts of the nature of animal life and its relation to the environment; of the processes of life; of reproduction and development; of variation and natural selection; of heredity and the origin of variations; and of organic evolution. The later chapters deal with the senses and sense-organs of animals; the nature of mental processes in man, serving as a basis for our judgment as to the nature and amount of animal intelligence; the mental processes of animals are then very fully and carefully discussed in three long and very suggestive chapters; and this brings us to a final and very metaphysical chapter on mental evolution. It will be impossible here to do more than notice a very few of the interesting subjects which the author discusses with a fullness of knowledge and a judicial impartiality worthy of all praise.

Animal Life and Intelligence.

By C. Lloyd Morgan, Author of “Animal Biology,” “The Springs of Conduct,” &c. (London: Edward Arnold, 1890–91.)