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A note on a seventeenth‐century distinction between feral man and man‐like apes
Author(s) -
Gregson E. D.,
Gregson R. A. M.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(197004)6:2<159::aid-jhbs2300060209>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - philosophy , epistemology , anthropology , ethnology , history , sociology
A critical examination of a passage from a text by Athanasius Kircher in 1667 indicates that a distinction between feral man and man‐like apes had been made on lines compatible with contemporary views almost a century before Linnaeus produced a classification which led to many years of controversy.