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IT may be asked by what right an anatomist, whose proper business is concerned with very concrete subjects, presumes to discuss so elusive and immaterial a subject as the evolution of the mind, even if it be admitted that the evolution t of the chief organ of the mind comes within the proper scope of his field of work. I am encouraged, however, to embark on this hazardous attempt by the considered judgment of Prof. S. Alexander, who once expressed the opinion “that we are forced to go beyond the mere correlation of the mental with [the] neural processes and to identify them”.
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SMITH, G. Evolution of the Mind*. Nature 133, 245–252 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133245a0
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