Species behavior is effective only in a world that fairly closely resembles the world in which the species evolved. That fault was corrected by the evolution of a second type of variation and selection, operant conditioning, through which variations in the behavior of the individual are selected by features of the environment that are not stable enough to play any part in evolution. (p. 664)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 52: Can Psychology Be a Science of Mind? Quote 4
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