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... nervous system of a navigating wasp operates is totally mysterious , nor is anything known about the genetic - developmental basis of any wasp's nerv- ous system . Why Questions But let's say that you were provided with or that you ...
... nervous system of a navigating wasp operates is totally mysterious , nor is anything known about the genetic - developmental basis of any wasp's nerv- ous system . Why Questions But let's say that you were provided with or that you ...
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... nervous system of animals must have special units that detect sign stimuli and activate an appropriate reaction . They labeled these hypothetical units INNATE RELEASING MECHA- NISMS . They hypothesized that , given adequate nutrition ...
... nervous system of animals must have special units that detect sign stimuli and activate an appropriate reaction . They labeled these hypothetical units INNATE RELEASING MECHA- NISMS . They hypothesized that , given adequate nutrition ...
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... nervous systems to organize some categories of behavior in repeating cycles . We have already commented on how the ... system means that feeding usually has high priority in the behav- ioral hierarchy of P. californica . But this changes ...
... nervous systems to organize some categories of behavior in repeating cycles . We have already commented on how the ... system means that feeding usually has high priority in the behav- ioral hierarchy of P. californica . But this changes ...
Contents
NATURAL SELECTION | 5 |
Alternative Hypotheses | 11 |
Experimental Tests of Evolutionary Predictions | 17 |
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