“These Blurred Copies of Himself”: T. H. Huxley, Paul Du Chaillu, and the Reader's Place among the Apes (2014)
In March of 1861, Thomas Henry Huxley was regularly drawing crowds of six hundred working-class men to Piccadilly for his Thursday night anatomy lectures. In a letter to his wife, Huxley reported that his evolutionary message was a success: By next Friday evening they will all be convinced that they are monkeys (L. Huxley, ed. 1: 205). Two years later, the notes from these lectures would make up the core of his popular work of comparative anatomy, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.
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