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Learning And Evolution

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The basic ideas that I will expound in this chapter are old ones. They are clearly expressed in the following quotations taken from the writings of William James and David Krech.

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Wyers, E.J. (1976). Learning And Evolution. In: Petrinovich, L., McGaugh, J.L. (eds) Knowing, Thinking, and Believing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1653-5_3

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