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Of apes and ancestors [electronic resource] : evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford debate / Ian Hesketh.

By: Publication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2009 2010)Description: 1 online resource (viii, 144 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781442697119 (electronic bk.)
  • 1442697113 (electronic bk.)
  • 9781442697591 (electronic bk.)
  • 1442697598 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Of apes and ancestors.DDC classification:
  • 213 22
LOC classification:
  • BL263 .H48 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Charles Darwin: historian of natural history -- The struggles of Soapy Sam -- Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen: or, Darwin's bulldog and the queer fish -- Joseph Dalton Hooker and the early history of a great friendship -- The Oxford debate -- Remembering the Oxford debate -- Epilogue: the history of the present.
Summary: By reconstructing the Oxford debate of 1860 on the merits of Charles Darwin?s Origin of Species, and carefully considering the individual perspectives of the main participants, Ian Hesketh argues that personal jealousies and professional agendas played a formative role in shaping the response to Darwin's hypothesis.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Charles Darwin: historian of natural history -- The struggles of Soapy Sam -- Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen: or, Darwin's bulldog and the queer fish -- Joseph Dalton Hooker and the early history of a great friendship -- The Oxford debate -- Remembering the Oxford debate -- Epilogue: the history of the present.

By reconstructing the Oxford debate of 1860 on the merits of Charles Darwin?s Origin of Species, and carefully considering the individual perspectives of the main participants, Ian Hesketh argues that personal jealousies and professional agendas played a formative role in shaping the response to Darwin's hypothesis.

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