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“THESE BLURRED COPIES OF HIMSELF”: T. H. HUXLEY, PAUL DU CHAILLU, AND THE READER'S PLACE AMONG THE APES

2014; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 42; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1060150313000259

1470-1553

Joshua Olivier-Mason,

History of Science and Medicine

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 .