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Edward L. Thorndike scientific productivity was almost unbelievable. At his death in 1949, his bibliography consisted of 507 books, monographs, and journal articles. Always attempting to measure everything, Thorndike reports in his autobiography that up to the age of sixty he had spent well over twenty thousand hours reading and studying scientific books and journals. Rene Descartes’s contention that the bodies of both humans and nonhuman animals function according to the same mechanical principles did much to stimulate the anatomical investigations of nonhuman animals. It was Charles Darwin, however, who suggested that humans and nonhumans are similar in all respects: anatomically, emotionally, and cognitively. In an effort to describe animal behavior more objectively, Conwy Lloyd Morgan gave the following advice to animal researchers in his book An Introduction to Comparative Psychology. Thorndike concern was not only for stimulus conditions and tendencies to action but also for what held the stimulus and response together.
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