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MEMORY is the power to learn, to grow mentally in response to functional activity, to profit from experience, and so to become intelligent. It has its counterpart in the power to develop physically in response to use. Its evolution occurred especially among the higher animals, and was accompanied by a general retrogression of instinct. Nevertheless, at least four new instincts were evolved, each of which incites to learning, and without which little or no intelligence could develop, no matter how great the capacity to learn.
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REID, G. Memory. Nature 109, 551–552 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109551a0
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