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George Romanes

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Gender Male
Death129 years ago
Date of birth May 20,1848
Zodiac sign Taurus
Born Kingston
Canada
Date of died May 23,1894
DiedOxford
United Kingdom
Influenced by Charles Darwin
Known forComparative psychology
Job Physiologist
Education University of Cambridge
Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge
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Animal Intelligence
Mental evolution in animals
Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
A Candid Examination of Theism
Mental Evolution in Man: Origin of Human Faculty
Mind, Motion And Monism
The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution
Thoughts on Religion
An Examination of Weismannism
Jelly-fish, star- fish and sea-urchins
A Selection from the Poems of George John Romanes
Darwinism Illustrated: Wood-engravings Explanatory of the Theory of Evolution
Christian Prayer and General Laws: Being the Burney Prize Essay for the Year 1873, with an Appendix, The Physical Efficacy of Prayer
Intelligence of Ants
Essays
Hypnotism
Hypnotism; Or, Animal Magnetism: Physiological Observations
The Natural History of Instinct
Essays. Edited by C. Lloyd Morgan
Essays (Classic Reprint)
Darwin, and After Darwin: Volume 2, Post-Darwinian Questions - Heredity and Utility: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
Our Common Cuckoo and Other Cuckoos and Parasitical Birds: An Attempt to Reach a True Theory of Them by Comparative Study of Habit and Function : with a Thorough Criticism and Exposure of Darwin's Views and Romane's Views and Those of Their Followers
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George John Romanes FRS 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.

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