Mental Evolution in Man by George John Romanes

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First published in 1888 by George John Romanes (1848–94), often considered the natural successor of Darwin, and following on from his Mental Evolution in Animals, this is a wide-ranging and sometimes controversial study of psychological evolution in humans by one of the foremost evolutionary biologists of the nineteenth century.

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Mental Evolution in Man by George John Romanes

George John Romanes (1848 94) was considered by The Times to be 'the biological investigator upon whom in England the mantle of Mr. Darwin has most conspicuously descended'. Incorporating some of Darwin's unpublished notes, this book explores the question of whether human intelligence evolved. In a stance still often considered controversial at the time of its first printing in 1888, the first half establishes a link between humans and animals, and introduces some of the most important issues of nineteenth-century evolutionary psychology: the impact of relative brain sizes of humans and primates, the origin of self-consciousness and the possible reasons behind the apparent mental stasis of what Romanes terms 'savage man'. Following the argument that one of the main factors to be considered is language, the second half focuses on philology. Romanes' earlier work, Mental Evolution in Animals (1883), is also reissued in this series.
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ISBN 13 9781108037976
ISBN 10 1108037976
Title Mental Evolution in Man
Author George John Romanes
Series Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin Evolution And Genetics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2011-10-20
Number of pages 472
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