George Romanes

George John Romanes FRS was a Canadianborn English evolutionary biologist and physiologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and other animals.

George Romanes was born in Kingston, Ontario, in 1848, the youngest of three children, all boys, in a welltodo and intellectually cultivated family. His father was Rev George Romanes , a Scottish Presbyterian minister. Two years after his birth, his parents moved to Cornwall Terrace in United Kingdom, which would set Romanes on the path to a fruitful and lasting relationship with Charles Darwin. During his youth, Romanes resided temporarily in Germany and Italy, developing a fluency in both German and Italian. His early education was inconsistent, undertaken partly in public schools, and partly at home. He developed an early love for pottery and music, at which he excelled. However, his true passion resided elsewhere, and the young Romanes decided to study science, abandoning a prior ambition to become a clergyman like his father.

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