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One implication of such quotations is that understanding complex issues is enhanced by preliminary knowledge of simpler component processes. In the present instance, research on memory organisation in animals is encouraged as a tactic to allow insights into integrative operations underlying cognitive processes in other species. It should be noted that here the appeal to simplicity derives, not from reductionist rationale, but from the prospect that animal research provides advantages in experimental control and precision of measurement. In his comparative treatments, Charles Darwin (1859, 1988) used the terms ‘organs’ and ‘instincts’ when referring to anatomy and behaviour, respectively. He stated that: ‘I can see no difficulty in natural selection preserving and continually accumulating variations of instinct to any extent that may be profitable. It is thus, that I believe, that all the most complex and wonderful instincts have originated.’ Accordingly, it seems just as appropriate to seek animal analogues of complex behaviours as to study the evolution of morphology. |
