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Mental Evolution in Man:
Origin of Human Faculty
By George John Romanes
New York. Ohio: D. Appleton and Company, 1889
George John Romanes FRS (1848 – 1894) was a Canadian-Scots 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.
Ruled brown cloth boards with gilt-stamped titles. Fold-out chart of the tree of mental evolution. Yellow endpapers, 452 pages including index + publisher's ads. 8.75" x 6".
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