Mental Evolution in Animals: With a Posthumous Essay on Instinct by Charles Darwin (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

George John Romanes

9780331910025: Mental Evolution in Animals: With a Posthumous Essay on Instinct by Charles Darwin (Classic Reprint)

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Could be published in a consecutive form; this is the chapter which was intended for the Origin of Species, and which, for the sake of reference, I have added as an Appendix to my present work. For the rest, the numerous disjointed para graphs and notes which I found among the mss I have woven into the text of this book, feeling on the one hand that they were not so well suited to appear as a string of disconnected passages, and on the other hand that it was desirable to publish them somewhere. I have gone through all the mss carefully, and have arranged so as to introduce every passage in them of any importance which I find to have been hitherto unpublished. In no case have I found any reason to suppress a passage, so that the quotations which I have given may be collectively regarded as a full supple mentary publication of all that Mr. Darwin has written in the domain of psychology. In order to facilitate reference, I have given in the Index, under Mr. Darwin's name, the numbers of all the pages in this work where the quotations in question.

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Evolutionary biologist George John Romanes (1848-94) wrote this influential work on the evolution of the mental faculties of animals in 1883. It is one of the pioneering works of comparative psychology and contains a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin (1809-82), who was a friend of Romanes.

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Charles Darwin was an English naturalist and author best-known for his revolutionary theories on the origin of species, human evolution, and natural selection. A life-long interest in the natural world led Darwin to neglect his medical studies and instead embark on a five-year scientific voyage on the HMS Beagle, where he established his reputation as a geologist and gathered much of the evidence that fuelled his later theories.A prolific writer, Darwin s most famous published works include The Voyage of the Beagle, On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. Darwin died in 1882, and in recognition of his contributions to science, is buried in Westminster Abbey along with John Herschel and Isaac Newton.

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