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The Origins of Psychosis and “The Descent of Man”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

T. J. Crow
T. J. Crow*
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MRC Clinical Research Centre, Division of Psychiatry, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 3UJ
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In 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. The first part of this volume made explicit the conclusion that had been implicit in the Origin of Species published 12 years earlier, that man indeed was descended from the great apes.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue S14: Delusions and Awareness of Reality , November 1991 , pp. 76 - 82
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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