As the result of careful scheduling, pigeons, rats, and monkeys have done things during the past five years which members of their species have never done before. It is not that their forebears were incapable of such behavior; nature had simply never arranged effective sequences of schedules. (p. 170)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 11: Reinforcement Today. Quote 13
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