When1: 1890
When2: 1923
Who: Conway Lloyd Morgan [Morgan, Conway Lloyd]
What: psychologist
Where: Britain
works\ Animal Life and Intelligence [1890]; Introduction to Comparative Psychology [1894 and 1903]; Emergent Evolution [1923]
Detail: He lived 1852 to 1936 and studied trial-and-error learning. He emphasized carefully observing behavior in natural settings where conditions systematically vary. He advocated finding minimal behavior causes {law of parsimony} {Morgan's canon} [1894], using higher concepts only if necessary. Evolution makes higher systems by emergence from lower ones.
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