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To
honor his pioneering insight, George Romanes has been appointed
spokesperson for The Darwin Project.
Romanes
was Darwin's disciple -- a young admirer who during the last
decade of Darwin's life became his sole close working associate
in the exploration of the impact of brain and mind on evolution,
of which he had written 200 times in The Descent
of Man. Darwin's notes on psychology were willed
to Romanes and Romanes went on to become a famous British
psychologist. His books on intelligence in animals and the
impact of mind were considered classics in his time.
By 1897 Romanes was so appalled by what was already happening
to the "real" Darwin that he lashed out in print
with a rage rare for science in that time. How could Darwin's
successors so soon ignore that he had "stoutly resisted
the doctrine that natural selection was to be regarded as
the only cause of organic evolution?"
Why was there a move afoot to "hide certain parts of
Darwin's teaching, and give undue prominence to others?"
Whether "the misrepresentation be due to any unfavourable
bias against one side of his teaching, or sheer carelessness
in the reading of his books," it was inexcusable that
the "neo-Darwinians" -- for it was in Romanes' book
Darwin and After Darwin, from which
these quotes come, that Romanes first coined the term -- should
"positively reverse" Darwin's teachings. All too
often ostensible Darwinians were "unjustifiably throwing
over [their] own opinions the authority of Darwin's name,"
Romanes charged.
"I
myself believe that Darwin's judgement with regard to all
these points will eventually prove more sound and accurate
than that of any of the recent would-be improvers upon his
system," Romanes predicted way back then -- a
prediction that is the mission of The Darwin Project in our
time.
Or for
information generally about...
 The
Darwin Project: info@thedarwinproject.com
The
Website: webmaster@thedarwinproject.com
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The
Darwin Project, P.O. Box 51936, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Phone:
831-626-1004. Fax 831-626-3734
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Credits
Website
 Designers:
David Loye and Birgit Maddox
Programmers:
Don Eddy, Cassandra Gallup
Bridge, and
Mark Morgan
Consultant:
Ann Gallenson
Administrator:
Cassandra Gallup
Bridge
Photos
and Images
Intro
and home page:
Darwin photos. Used with permission of John
van Wyhe, Ph.D.,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge
University
About
the Darwin Project:
Photo
of little girl: David Loye
Photo
of Riane Eisler: Robin Rosenzweig
The
Great Adventure:
Painting:
Sunset Fire by Winslow Homer
Classrooms:
teacher with students, Sheri Sheldon.
Other
photos: Google Images via World Wide Web
Pestalozzi,
Montessori, Dewey, Piaget, Noddings, Miller: Google
Images via World Wide Web
Evolution
tree figures: David Loye
Partnership
Earth: pen and ink, John Thompson; coloring, Don Eddy
The
Beagle beached: old print from Voyage of the Beagle
Cartoon
heading for Action Book Discussion Groups: David Loye
Cartoon
of Natural Selection and Random Variation: David Loye
Library
and Bookstore
Photo
of Loye and Eisler: Cathleen Rountree
Bookcase
background: drawing, David Loye; coloring, Don Eddy
Darwin's
Unfolding Revolution:
Pictures
of Galileo, Lincoln, Van Gogh, Whitman, Carson: Google
Images via World Wide Web
GERG:
Photo:
David Loye
Philanthropy:
Photos
of Solomon, Carnegie, Rosenwald, Soros, Turner,
Smith,
Sage, Scripps, Bullitt, and Yorkin: Google Images via World
Wide Web
Pictures
and photos of Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Stanton, King:
Google Images via World Wide Web
David
Loye's Page:
Photos
of Loye: Don Eddy
Photo
of Loye and Eisler: Cathleen Rountree
Links:
Picture
of Ben Franklin: Google Image via World Wide Web
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