Title: Intelligence, power and personality,
Authors: Crile, George Washington, 1864-1943; Crile, Grace; Crile, Grace; Crile, Grace.
Publisher: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill book company, inc.
Year: 1941
Subjects: Anatomy, Comparative; Physiology, Comparative; Psychology, Comparative; Energy Metabolism
Abstract: "ONE of the mysteries of the human race is the fact that civalized man is subject to certain diseases that rarely attack primitive man and never appear in wild and domestic animals. These are various nervous and mental disorders, exophthalmic goiter, neurocirculatory asthenia, Raynauds disease, diabetes, peptic ulcer, essential hypertension, and coronary disease. Each of these diseases is related to the expenditure of energy. It would appear that this fact alone offers a biological clue to the mechanism of the energy characteristics of man and animals. It is well known that only certain organs and tissues control the expenditure of energy in all animals, including man. These are the brain, the heart and the blood, the thyroid gland, the adrenal glands, the celiac ganglia, and the sympathetic system. I postulated that if we were to analyze, measure, and compare the organs of this energy-controlling system in fish, reptiles, birds and mammals and then compare the influence of the heat of the tropics and the cold of the arctic upon the size of these organs-heat and cold and struggle and survival being the most potent of all environmental influences-we should be able to account for the varying intelligence, power, and personality among the different species of animals and the races of man.
Contents: Part I. Energy -- Animal energy -- Animal behavior [behaviour] -- Part II. Comparative anatomy and physiology with Daniel P. Quiring -- The African front [Africa] -- Majo Moto Camp -- Rhinoceros and buffalo -- Eagle and vulture -- Warm-blooded versus cold-blooded -- Intelligence of bird and reptile -- The Giraffe -- The Hippopotamus -- The mercy shot -- The cat family -- The herd and it's enemies -- The technique of hunting -- Elephand and mouse -- Fish [fishes] -- The horse family -- Influence of captivity and domestication -- The primates -- The Subarctic expedition [Northern regions -- Canada, etc.] -- Influence of cold -- Man in the energy scale -- The law of energy release, the "life line" -- Thinking brain and moral colde.