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Consciousness reduced: The role of the ‘idiot’ in early evolutionary psychology

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 as a physical process. This intellectual enterprise necessitated the...

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Autor principal: Jarrett, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7705639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33304032
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952695120911557