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See also: British biologist, was See also: born at See also: Kingston, See also: Canada, on the loth of May 1848, being the third son of the Rev
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See also: George See also: Romanes, D.D., professor of See also: Greek at the university of that See also: town
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He was educated in See also: England, going in 1867 to Gonville and Caius CoIIege, See also: Cam-See also: bridge
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He early formed an intimate friendship with See also: Charles Darwin, whose theories he did much during his
See also: life to popularize and support
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When studying under See also: Sir J
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Burdon See also: Sanderson at University See also: College, See also: London, in 1874-76, he began a series of researches on the See also: nervous and locomotor systems of the Medusae andEchinodermata, which provided him with material for his Croonian lecture in 1876
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Subsequently he continued the inquiry, partly in conjunction with Professor J
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Cossar See also: Ewart, and the results were published in Jelly-See also: fish, See also: Star-fish, and See also: Sea-urchins (1885)
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Meantime he had been also devoting his See also: attention to broader problems of See also: biology
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In 1881 he published Animal Intelligence, and in 1883 See also: Mental See also: Evolution in Animals, in which he traced the parallel development of intelligence in the animal See also: world and in See also: man
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He followed up this See also: line of See also: argument in 1888 with Mental Evolution in Man, in which he maintained the essential similarity of the reasoning processes in the higher animals and in man, the highest of all
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In 1892 he brought out an Examination of Weismannism, in which he upheld the theory of the hereditability of acquired characters
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In 1890 he See also: left London and settled at See also: Oxford, where he founded a lecture similar to the " Rede " of Cam-bridge, to be delivered annually on a scientific or See also: literary topic
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In 1893 he published the first See also: part of Darwin and after Darwin, a See also: work dealing with the development of the theory of organic evolution, and based on lectures, which he delivered as Ful]erian professor of physiology at the Royal Institution in 1888-91; a second part appeared in 1895 after his See also: death, which occurred at Oxford on the 23rd of May 1894
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Romanes was awarded the See also: Burney prize at Cambridge in 1873 for an essay on " Christian Prayer and General See also: Laws." Five years later, under the pseudonym " Physicus," he issued A Candid Examination of See also: Theism, in which he showed himself out of See also: accord with orthodox religious beliefs
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In 1882 he published an article on the " Fallacy of Materialism," and in his Rede lecture of 1885 he appeared as a monist
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Subsequently his views again changed in the direction of orthodoxy, as is shown by his Thoughts on See also: Religion, written shortly before his death and published in 1895
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His Life and Letters, by his widow, appeared in 1896
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