George Romanes, friend and disciple of Charles Darwin, argues that the human faculties of conception, language and self-consciousness evolved by degrees from the mental powers of animals. He draws on child development, gesture, sign language and the speech of many peoples, though his ranking of ‘savage’ and ‘civilised’ minds reflects the assumptions of 1888.
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