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THE subject of instinct might have been worked into the previous chapters; but I have thought that it would be more convenient to treat the subject separately, especially as 1859 1860 1861 1866
INSTINCTS might have been worked into the previous chapters; but I thought that it would be more convenient to treat the subject separately, especially as 1869
MANY instincts are 1872

so wonderful an instinct as that of the hive-bee making its cells 1859 1860 1861 1866
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CHAPTER
VIII.
VII.
INSTINCT.
Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin— Instincts graduated— Aphides and ants— Instincts variable— Domestic instincts, their origin— Natural instincts of the cuckoo,
molothrus, ostrich,
ostrich,
and parasitic bees—
Slave-making ants—
Slave-making-ants—
Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct— Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts— Neuter or sterile insects— Summary.
THE subject of instinct might have been worked into the previous chapters; but I have thought that it would be more convenient to treat the subject separately, especially as so wonderful an instinct as that of the hive-bee making its cells will probably have occurred to many readers, as a difficulty sufficient to overthrow
the
my
whole theory. I
may here
must
premise, that I have nothing to do with the origin of the
primary
primary
mental powers, any more than I have with that of life itself. We are concerned only with the diversities of instinct and of the other mental qualities of animals within the same class.
I will not attempt any definition of instinct. It would be easy to show that several distinct mental actions are commonly embraced by this term; but every one understands what is meant, when it is said that instinct impels the cuckoo to migrate and to lay her eggs in other birds' nests. An action, which we ourselves
should
should
require experience to enable us to perform, when performed by an animal, more especially by a very young one, without
any
any
experience, and when performed by many individuals in the same way, without their knowing for what purpose it is performed, is usually said to be instinctive.