La place officiel de lhomme dans la nature : le débat sur lévolution, 1813-1870, couverture rigide par Huxley,...

Product Name: La place officiel de lhomme dans la nature : le débat sur lévolution, 1813-1870, couverture rigide par Huxley,...
Book Title：Mans Place in Nature : The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870 ISBN：9780415289290
Mans Place in Nature : The Evolution Debate, 1, Hardcover by Huxley, Thomas Henry; Knight, David (INT), ISBN 0415289297, ISBN-13 officiel 9780415289290, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK

Huxley was one of the first adherents to Darwins theory of evolution by natural selection and advanced its acceptance by scientists and the public. Mans Place in Nature was explicitly directed against Richard Owen, who had claimed that there were distinct differences between human brains and those of apes. Huxley demonstrated that ape and human brains were fundamentally similar in every anatomical detail, thus applying evolution to the human race..