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Morgan's canon
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English
Morgan's Canon
Etymology
Proposed by the 19th-century British psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan.
Proper noun
en psychology zoology A fundamental precept of comparative animal psychology, stating that an animal's activity should not be interpreted in terms of higher psychological processes if it can be fairly interpreted in terms of simpler developmental processes.
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