Alfred Russell Wallace and the evolution of the human mind.
Today the fame of Alfred Russell Wallace is as the independent codiscoverer with Charles Darwin of the origin of species by natural selection. Although they were on very amiable terms all their lives, 11 years after announcing their discovery, Wallace and Darwin had a major disagreement on the evolution of human cognition. The author considers how this divergence and other disagreements, particularly on the role of instinct, are related to the differences in their class backgrounds, education, experience with non-European cultures, and views on socialism, phrenology, mesmerism, and spiritualism.
Gross
Charles
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Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. cggross@princeton.edu
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D010792:Phrenology / Q000266:history*; D012641:Selection, Genetic / Q000502:physiology