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IT was a famous moment in the history of science when, during the discussion of Darwin's theory of evolution at the British Association meeting at Oxford in 1860, Bishop Wilberforce turned to T. H. Huxley and asked him whether he claimed descent from an ape on his father's or his mother's side.
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Huxley, Leonard, “The Life and Letters of T. H. Huxley”, 1, 259 (Macmillan, 1903).
Imperial College, “The Huxley Papers”, 15, 117–118.
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FOSKETT, D. Wilberforce and Huxley on Evolution. Nature 172, 920 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172920a0
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