...the ancestry of their field dates back to Darwin's 1859 assertion that "In the distant future . . . psychology will be based on a new foundation, that...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation" ([1859] 1985:458). In reality, however, the search for intellectual antecedents for this "discipiine"...

...Crane explored psychological questions arising from Darwin's prediction in the Origin oj Species that "psychology will be based on a new foundation, that...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation" (488). Darwin himself began to lay the new foundations in his later studies of the human mind, The...

...one day achieve that which Darwin predicted in The Origin of Species (1859): "In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation." REFERENCE Allman, WF (1994). The stone age present: How evolution has shaped modern life — from sex,...

...process. Charles Darwin anticipated as much in the field of psychology when he wrote: "In the future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each...

...survival of the fittest. There was no mention of man - except a brief comment in the conclusion that 'light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history' - but Darwin's views on that subject emerged clearly in the rest of the book. Man was not 'made in God's...

...have contributed to the long delay in the publication of The Origin of Species. The form of words — "that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation" — is also of note because it expresses clearly Darwin's predilection for a gradualist account of...

...113. 205 177 Beer, op. cit., p. 127. 178 Darwin, Origin, op. cit., p. 459. 206 179 Ibid., p. 458 - 'Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history'. 207 180 Ward, op. cit., p. 278. 208 181 C. Kingsley, The Water Babies (London, 209 1863; Penguin edn....

...human evolution. The British naturalist Charles Darwin, who published the book in 1859, says only that, "light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." The nervous young scientist preferred to leave readers to draw their own conclusions. And draw them...

...respectively. While the Origin ostensibly avoids human evolution - apart from the throwaway line near the end, 'light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history' - the subject pervades the text as a ghostly presence (as reviewers realized). Both books can be seen...

...Darwins Theorie der natürlichen Auslese 1859 einmal mehr aktualisiert wurde. Darin versprach er: „Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (Darwin [1859] 1958: 458). Unter dem Paradigma des Evolutionismus wurde - zunächst in England - auch...