Article ID: CBB000030732

Anatomy, metaphysics, and values: The ape brain debate reconsidered (1994)

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Description “Conventional wisdom teaches that Thomas Huxley discredited Richard Owen in their debate over ape and human brains. This paper reexamines the dispute and uses it as a test case for evaluating the metaphysical realist, internal realist, and social constructionist theories of scientific knowledge.” From the abstract.


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Authors & Contributors
Smith, C. U. M.
Smith, Christopher Upham Murray
Owen, Richard
Gould, Stephen Jay
Master, Sharad
McGowan, John
Journals
Natural History
Journal of the History of Biology
Archives of Natural History
Philosophy & Theory in Biology
Science in Context
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Indiana University Press
Concepts
Animal anatomy
Evolution
Zoology
Biology
Vertebrate zoology
Anatomy
People
Owen, Richard
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Weismann, August
Oken, Lorenz
Melville, Herman
Meckel, Johann Friedrich, the Younger
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
British Isles
Lesotho
Germany
Europe
Great Britain
Institutions
Botanic Garden (Calcutta, India)
Halle-Wittenberg. Universität
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