C. Lloyd Morgan

Conwy Lloyd Morgan

Conwy Lloyd Morgan, FRS[1] (6 February 1852 – 6 March 1936) 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.

  1. ^ Parsons, J. H. (1936). "Conwy Lloyd Morgan. 1852-1936". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (5): 25–27. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1936.0003.