...'Psychology', he wrote, 'will be securely based on the foundation already well laid by Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation'.8 Since his day the growth of comparative psychology has amply fulfilled this prediction....

...Close to the end of the Origin, surveying the prospects for the theory he has propounded, he declared, "In the distant future, I see open fields for far...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (2003, p. 397). The future was not so distant...

...In the last chapter entitled 'Recapitulation and Conclusion' he confined himself to one paragraph: In the distant future I see open fields for far more...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. Correspondence should be addressed to Timothy...

..."incomprehensible to us," in which the changes he has been describing must have taken place, he continues: In the distant future I see open fields for far more...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. Darwin 1859, p. 488 For Darwin, that light...

...implications of his theory for understanding in an entirely new way the workings of the human mind: "In the distant future I see open fields for far more...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation" (Darwin 1859, p. 488). According to some critics of evolutionary psychology, Darwin's prediction has...

...Origin, surveying the prospects for the theory he has propounded, he declared, "1n the distant future, 1 see open fields for far more important researches....acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (2003, p. 397). The future was not so distant...

...pis 14, 15. Roots in the Brain: A Neurological Interlude In the distant future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be based...necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity 1n/ gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and Ins histon/. —Charles Darwin, 18591...

...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...

...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"...

...otherwise. Perhaps we may one day achieve that which Darwin predicted in The Origin of Species (1859): "In the distant future I see open fields for far more...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,...