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The passing of the phantoms

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A scientific study argues that human mental and moral faculties developed through organic descent, marshaling anatomical, embryological, and behavioral observations from lower animals to support continuity with human psychology. The text surveys the reality of evolution, documents examples of evolving mental capacities and incipient moral responses in nonhuman species, and then considers how these findings illuminate the emergence of human morality. Emphasis falls on comparative anatomy and naturalistic anecdotes that connect vestigial structures and animal behavior to gradual psychological change, presenting a readable synthesis aimed at readers seeking biological foundations for ethical development.

THE PASSING OF THE
PHANTOMS

A STUDY OF EVOLUTIONARY
PSYCHOLOGY AND MORALS

BY

C. J. PATTEN, M.A., M.D., Sc.D., F.R.A.I.

Professor of Anatomy, Sheffield University,
Examiner in Anatomy in the
University of Wales, etc., etc.

New York
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 Fifth Avenue