Donald R Forsdyke, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Published online: October 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002466
1848–1894 Canadian-born British research associate of Charles Darwin and a founder of evolutionary psychology, whose fundamental contributions to speciation theory were ignored for much of the twentieth century.
Keywords: Darwin; evolutionary psychology; evolution; chromosomal speciation; physiological selection
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Figure 1. George John Romanes (1848–1894). Reproduced with permission of Giles J. Romanes
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| Further Reading | |
| book Romanes GJ (1888) Mental Evolution in Man. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. | |
| book Romanes GJ (1897) Darwin, and After Darwin. An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions, vol. 3: Isolation and Physiological Selection. London: Longmans, Green & Co. | |
| Forsdyke DR (1999) Two levels of information in DNA. Relationship of Romanes’ ‘intrinsic’ variability of the reproductive system, and Bateson's ‘residue’, to the species-dependent component of the base composition, (C+G)%. Journal of Theoretical Biology 201: 47–61. | |
| book Forsdyke DR (2000) "Huxley and The Philosopher's wife. Another case history in evaluation in science". In: Tomorrow's Cures Today? How to Reform the Health Research System, pp. 35–54. Newark, NJ: Harwood Academic. | |
| book Forsdyke DR (2001) The Origin of Species, Revisited. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. | |
| ePath Forsdyke DR. Evolution [http://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/evolutio.htm] [Full texts of key papers by Romanes.] | |
| French RD (1970) Darwin and the physiologists, or the medusa and modern cardiology. Journal of the History of Biology 3: 253–274. | |
| Lesch JE (1975) The role of isolation in evolution: George J. Romanes and John T. Gulick. Isis 66: 483–503. | |
| book Romanes E (1896) The Life and Letters of George John Romanes. London: Longmans, Green & Co. | |
| Schwartz JS (1995) George John Romanes's defence of Darwinism: The correspondence of Charles Darwin and his chief disciple. Journal of the History of Biology 28: 281–316. | |
| ePath The Darwin Correspondence Project. [http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Darwin/calintro.html] [Summaries of correspondence between Romanes and Darwin.] | |
| book Turner FM (1974) "George John Romanes: From faith to faith". In: Between Science and Religion, pp. 134–163. New Haven: Yale University Press. | |
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