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C. Lloyd Morgan

C. Lloyd Morgan, English zoologist and psychologist (died 1936)

Born
February 6, 1852
Died
March 6, 1936
Zodiac sign
Aquarius
Birth year
1852

About C. Lloyd Morgan

Conwy Lloyd Morgan, FRS was a British ethologist and psychologist. He is remembered for his theory of emergent evolution, and for the experimental approach to animal psychology now known as Morgan's Canon, a principle that played a major role in behaviourism, insisting that higher mental faculties should only be considered as explanations if lower faculties could not explain a behaviour. Lloyd Morgan was not the first to work on these questions. Lloyd Morgan, however, had watched and recorded the series of approximations by which the dog had gradually learned the response, and could demonstrate that no insight was required to explain it.

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The world when C. Lloyd Morgan was born

C. Lloyd Morgan was born in 1852. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1852

  • Best-selling bookUncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineNapoleon III becomes Emperor of France
  • Technology milestoneFirst public flushing toilet opens in London
  • World population~1.32B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderMillard Fillmore
  • U.S. population24.4M

1852 versus 2026

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Measure18522026
Population24.4M341 million

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