Consciousness reduced: The role of the ‘idiot’ in early evolutionary psychology
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DOI: 10.1177/0952695120911557
Abstract: A conception of the idiotic mind was used to substantiate late 19th-century theories of mental evolution. A new school of animal/comparative psychologists attempted from the 1870s to demonstrate that evolution was a mental as well… read more here.
Keywords: evolution; consciousness; idiot; evolutionary psychology ... See more keywords