 | John Updike - 1983 - 952 lehte
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 | Robert Boakes - 1984 - 298 lehte
...not have produced the human brain: 'Natural selection could only have endowed the savage with a brain little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses one but very little inferior to that of the average member of our learned societies'. In his struggles... | |
 | T. Ingold - 1986 - 460 lehte
...purposes, especially whilst they remained in the state of savagery. 'Natural selection', Wallace wrote, 'could only have endowed savage man with a brain a...one very little inferior to that of a philosopher' (1870:356; for a recent expression of the same view, see Williams 1966:14-15). Progress towards civilization... | |
 | Helena Cronin - 1991 - 510 lehte
...on potentialities: 'Natural selection could only have endowed savage man with a brain a few degrees superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses...one very little inferior to that of a philosopher' (Wallace 1891, p. 202). So natural selection could not have been responsible for 'the higher feelings... | |
 | Robert Evan Ornstein - 1992 - 324 lehte
...natural selection: "Natural selection could only have endowed savage man with a brain a few degrees superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses...one very little inferior to that of a philosopher." If the brain of "savages" — his term for human ancestors as well as modern primitives — was outfitted... | |
 | 2000 - 156 lehte
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Natural Selection could only have endowed the savage with a brain a little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses one but very little inferior to that of the average members of our learned societies. 
