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Archetypes and ancestors

Palaeontology in Victorian London 1850-1875

by Adrian J. Desmond

1982 287 pages eng

How fossil animals were interpreted by rival sectors of British society, especially by pro- and anti-Darwinian factions. The ideological infighting was typified by T. H. Huxley and Richard Owen's clashes over dinosaurs, the ancestry of mammals and birds, and the kinship of mammal-like reptiles. Also…

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