"In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of an exercise of higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale." This quote is from
A) Darwin.
B) Morgan.
C) Romanes.
D) Tinbergen.

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This quote is from C. Lloyd Morgan, a British psychologist and ethologist, who formulated Morgan's Canon. This principle suggests that animal behavior should not be interpreted as arising from a higher mental process when it can be explained by a simpler one.

"In No Case May We Interpret an Action as the Outcome