JENNINGS, H. S. [HERBERT SPENCER].

Diverse Ideals and Divergent Conclusions in the Study of Behavior in Lower Organisms.

[Unknown printer], 1910. 8vo. Offprint in the original printed wrappers. Reprinted from "American Journal of Psychology, July, 1910, Vol. XXI, pp. 349-370". Previous owner's name written to top right corner of front wrapper. A very fine and clean copy. (2), 22 pp.

First printing of Jennings paper on the behavior of the lowest organisms. Jennings "published an important essay in 1910 [the present], in which he set forth his methodological credo regarding the then prevailing trends in the study of animal behavior." (Cordeschi, The discovery of the artificial: behavior, mind, and machines, p. 17).

Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868-1947), American botanist who was trained at Illinois Normal School and the University of Michigan, then spent a year studying protozoans with Max Verworn at the zoological station in Naples. In the early twentieth century, Jennings began studying inheritance and evolution in protozoans and introduced new experimental methods for laboratory study. By 1920 he had left the laboratory to popularize genetics and harmonize the relationship between biology, religion, and the humanities.

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