18/7 AMPLIFYING ADAPTATION 



dictionary. While the hunting wasp, as it attacks its prey, is 

 guided in detail by its genetic inheritance, the kitten is taught 

 how to catch mice by the mice themselves. Thus in the learning 

 organism the information that comes to it by the gene-pattern 

 is much supplemented by information supplied by the environ- 

 ment; so the total adaptation possible, after learning, can exceed 

 the quantity transmitted directly through the gene-pattern. 



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