George John Romanes
| George John Romanes LLD FLS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1848 | ||||||||
| Died | 1894 | ||||||||
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18 Cornwall Terrace, Regents Park [1878] St Aldate's, Oxford [1892] | ||||||||
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1878.03.26 proposed
1892.01.12 proposed
death noted in report of the council for 1894
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George John Romanes FRS (20 May 1848 – 23 May 1894) was a Canadian-born English evolutionary biologist and physiologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and other animals.
He was the youngest of Charles Darwin's academic friends, and his views on evolution are historically important. He invented the term neo-Darwinism, which is still often used today to indicate an updated form of Darwinism. Romanes' early death was a loss to the cause of evolutionary biology in Britain. Within six years Mendel's work was rediscovered, and a whole new agenda opened up for debate.
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Animal intelligence
mental evolution in animals
mental evolution in man
In 1890, Romanes published Darwin, and After Darwin,[14] where he attempted to explain the relationship between science and religion. All of his notes on this subject were left to Charles Gore. Gore used the notes in preparing Thoughts on Religion, and published the work under Romanes's name.[10] The Life and Letters of George Romanes, offers a semi-autobiographical account of Romanes's life
