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Darwin's unpublished notes, this book explores the question of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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