Of Apes and Ancestors : : Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate / / Ian Hesketh.
Tell me, sir, is it on your grandmother's or your grandfather's side that you are descended from an ape?In June of 1860, some of Britain's most influential scientific and religious authorities gathered in Oxford to hear a heated debate on the merits of Charles Darwin's recently p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (144 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Charles Darwin: Historian of Natural History
- 2. The Struggles of Soapy Sam
- 3. Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen; or, Darwin's Bulldog and the Queer Fish
- 4. Joseph Dalton Hooker and the Early History of a Great Friendship
- 5. The Oxford Debate
- 6. Remembering the Oxford Debate
- Epilogue: The History of the Present
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index