TY - BOOK AU - Hesketh,Ian TI - Of apes and ancestors: evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford debate SN - 9781442697119 AV - BL263 .O337 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Toronto [Ont. PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Huxley, Thomas Henry, KW - Wilberforce, Samuel, KW - Darwin, Charles, KW - Evolution (Biology) KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Religion and science KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction --; Charles Darwin: historian of natural history --; The struggles of Soapy Sam --; Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen: or, Darwin's bulldog and the queer fish --; Joseph Dalton Hooker and the early history of a great friendship --; The Oxford debate --; Remembering the Oxford debate --; Epilogue: the history of the present; 2; b N2 - By reconstructing the Oxford debate of 1860 on the merits of Charles Darwin?s Origin of Species, and carefully considering the individual perspectives of the main participants, Ian Hesketh argues that personal jealousies and professional agendas played a formative role in shaping the response to Darwin's hypothesis UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=682560&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -