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Romanes, George John
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Naturalist, born at Kingston, Canada; took an honours degree in science at Cambridge; came under the influence of Darwin, whose theory of evolution he advocated and developed in lectures and various works, e. g . "Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution," "Mental Evolution in Animals," "Mental Evolution in Man"; his posthumous "Thoughts on Religion" reveal a marked advance from his early agnosticism towards a belief in Christianity; founded the Romanes Lectures at Oxford (1848-1894).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Romanes, George John'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/r/romanes-george-john.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Romanes, George John'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/r/romanes-george-john.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
