Article ID: CBB001201803

“These Blurred Copies of Himself”: T. H. Huxley, Paul Du Chaillu, and the Reader's Place among the Apes (2014)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Mussell, James
Lara Pauline Karpenko
Shalyn Rae Claggett
Rispoli, Stephanie Adair
Wallace, Jeff
Timms, Joanna
Concepts
Science and culture
Popularization
Popular culture
Science and literature
Science and society
Lectures
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
Gilded Age (1870s-1900)
17th century
Places
London (England)
Great Britain
England
United States
France
Barcelona (Spain)
Institutions
Crystal Palace
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