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... fly around at the end of the corridor for the return trip . At any rate , we readily produced hungry flies . But what is hunger ? The possibility occurred to us that the difference between a hungry fly and a fed fly was the amount of ...
... fly around at the end of the corridor for the return trip . At any rate , we readily produced hungry flies . But what is hunger ? The possibility occurred to us that the difference between a hungry fly and a fed fly was the amount of ...
Page 49
... hungry fly had less sugar in his blood than a fed fly . Then we conducted an ex- periment to test the hypothesis that some causal relationship existed between blood - sugar level and hunger . We injected sugar into a hungry fly in much ...
... hungry fly had less sugar in his blood than a fed fly . Then we conducted an ex- periment to test the hypothesis that some causal relationship existed between blood - sugar level and hunger . We injected sugar into a hungry fly in much ...
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... fly , his sense of taste , his preferences , his hungers , his thirst , his satiation . Meditating one day on these facts I got to thinking that being hungry served no useful purpose unless hunger also stimulated one to search for food . A ...
... fly , his sense of taste , his preferences , his hungers , his thirst , his satiation . Meditating one day on these facts I got to thinking that being hungry served no useful purpose unless hunger also stimulated one to search for food . A ...
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