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When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays ap — Homer W. Smith, Man and His Gods
Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite — Henry Fairfield Osborn
About 4,400 years ago 8 people stepped off Noah’s ark. According to the United Nations Population Growth Statistics, the — Michael Ben Zehabe, Unanswered Questions in the Sunday News
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of — Thomas Henry Huxley
I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Sci — Joseph Dalton Hooker, Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I.
Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in w — Andrew Louth, Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken proc — Mark Twain
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culmin — Asa Gray, Letters of Asa Gray V2
DARWIN’S “SACRED CAUSE”?Much ink has been dedicated to determining Charles Darwin’s role in “scientific racism.” The onl — A.E. Samaan, From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848
More to the point, one cannot understand The Holocaust without understanding the intentions, ideology, and mechanisms th — A.E. Samaan, H.H. Laughlin: American Scientist, American Progressive, Nazi Collaborator
Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at e — Jacky Fleming, The Trouble With Women
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration fro — David R. Stoddart
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. — Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists. — A.E. Samaan
Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful wor — William Bateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation al — Joseph Dalton Hooker, Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I.