Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature - Softcover

Huxley, Thomas Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1518807291 ISBN 13: 9781518807299

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Ancient traditions, when tested by the severe processes of modern investigation, commonly enough fade away into mere dreams: but it is singular how often the dream turns out to have been a half-waking one, presaging a reality. Ovid foreshadowed the discoveries of the geologist: the Atlantis was an imagination, but Columbus found a western world: and though the quaint forms of Centaurs and Satyrs have an existence only in the realms of art, creatures approaching man more nearly than they in essential structure, and yet as thoroughly brutal as the goat's or horse's half of the mythical compound, are now not only known, but notorious.

About this title

Book Description:

In 1863, the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley published a compilation of his public lectures on Darwin's theory of evolution - specifically the idea of the ape ancestry of humans. A keen supporter of Darwin, Huxley argued that to understand the universe, everybody must know their place in the natural world.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1518807291
• ISBN 13: 9781518807299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52