Mental Evolution in Animals : With a Posthumous Essay on Instinct by Charles Darwin (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction; 1. The criterion of mind; 2. The structure and functions of nerve-tissue; 3. The physical basis of mind; 4. The root-principles of mind; 5. Explanation of the diagram; 6. Consciousness; 7. Sensation; 8. Pleasures and pains, memory, and association of ideas; 9. Perception; 10. Imagination; 11. Instinct; 12. Instinct (continued) - origin and development of instincts; 13. Instinct (continued) - blended origin, or plasticity of instinct; 14. Instinct (continued) - modes in which intelligence determines the variation of instinct in definite lines; 15. Instinct (continued) - domestication; 16. Instinct (continued) - local and specific varieties of instinct; 17. Instinct (continued) - examination of the theories of other writers on the evolution of instinct, with a general summary of the theory here set forth; 18. Instinct (continued) - cases of special difficulty with regard to the foregoing theory of the origin and development of instincts; 19. Reason; 20. Animal emotions, and summary of intellectual faculties; Appendix. A posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin; Index.