George John Romanes (1848-94), considered by The Times to be 'the
biological investigator upon whom in England the mantle of Mr.
Darwin has most conspicuously descended', wrote this influential
work on the evolution of the mental faculties of animals in 1883.
The two scientists were close friends, and Darwin gave Romanes his
notes on psychology to use in his studies. Much of the book is
devoted to instinct, and contained in the appendix is a posthumous
essay by Darwin on the subject, originally intended for a later
edition of On the Origin of Species. Romanes' method of using
anecdotal evidence over empirical research has been criticised, but
this book stands as an influential work in the history of
evolutionary biology; it was followed in 1888 by his Mental
Evolution in Man (also reissued in this series), which discussed
some of the most important issues of nineteenth-century
evolutionary psychology.
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