Canadian-Scots evolutionary biologist and physiologist
For the 20th-century anatomist, see George John Romanes (anatomist).
George Romanes
Photograph by Elliott & Fry
Born
(1848-05-20)20 May 1848
Kingston, Canada West (now Ontario), Canada
Died
23 May 1894(1894-05-23) (aged 46)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Citizenship
British
Alma mater
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Known for
Comparative psychology
Spouse
Ethel Romanes
Scientific career
Fields
Evolutionary biology Physiology
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George John Romanes FRS (20 May 1848 – 23 May 1894) was a Canadian-Scots[1] 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 is considered to invent the term neo-Darwinism, which in the late 19th century was considered as a theory of evolution that focuses on natural selection as the main evolutionary force.[2] However, Samuel Butler used this term with a similar meaning in 1880.[3] 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.
^Wilson, A. N. (2017). Charles Darwin : Victorian mythmaker. John Murray. p. 332. ISBN 978-1-4447-9488-5.
^Gould, Stephen (2002). The Structure of Evolutionary Thought. Harvard University Press. pp. 216. ISBN 978-0-674-00613-3.
^Samuel Butler, Ewald Hering (1 January 1880). Unconscious Memory: A Comparison Between the Theory of Dr. Ewald Hering, and the "Philosophy of ... D. Bogue.
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pure-Darwinism which proposed a "greater efficacy" for natural selection. GeorgeRomanes dubbed this view as "Wallaceism", noting that in contrast to Darwin...
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"anecdotal movement" led by GeorgeRomanes who set out to demonstrate that animals possessed a "rudimentary human mind". Romanes is most famous for two major...
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controlled procedures. A protégé of Charles Darwin, GeorgeRomanes continued using anecdotal methodologies. Romanes documented an account that exemplifies this...
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his son Francis Darwin (who specialised in botany) and his devotee, GeorgeRomanes, who assisted in editing the work. The work was begun in earnest late...
leading spiritualist came to nothing. Darwin invited Romanes to Downe to help him recover. Romanes had earlier written a refutation of theism, and had...
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Richard John Cartwright, and professors at Queen's University such as GeorgeRomanes. At her summer home, Ferncliff, in Gananoque she hosted an array of...
commented that his talent may be great use to the study of psychology. GeorgeRomanes noted that Bishop was "guided by the indications unconsciously given...
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