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    Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes
    Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes
    Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes
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    Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes

    By Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Darwin

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes - Thomas Henry Huxley

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      Title: Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of Brain in Man and the Apes

      Author: Thomas Henry Huxley

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      NOTE ON THE RESEMBLANCES AND DIFFERENCES IN THE STRUCTURE

      AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRAIN IN MAN AND APES

      BY

      PROFESSOR T. H. HUXLEY, F.R.S.

      [This essay is taken from 'The Descent of Man and Selection in relation to Sex' by Charles Darwin where it appears at the end of Chapter VII which is also the end of Part I. Footnotes are numbered as they appear in 'The Descent of Man.']

      The controversy respecting the nature and the extent of the differences in the structure of the brain in man and the apes, which arose some fifteen years ago, has not yet come to an end, though the subject matter of the dispute is, at present, totally different from what it was formerly. It was originally asserted and re-asserted, with singular pertinacity, that the brain of all the apes, even the highest, differs from that of man, in the absence of such conspicuous structures as the posterior lobes of the cerebral hemispheres, with the posterior cornu of the lateral ventricle and the hippocampus minor, contained in those lobes, which are so obvious in man.

      But the truth that the three structures in question are as well developed in apes' as in human brains, or even better; and that it is characteristic of all the Primates (if we exclude the Lemurs) to have these parts

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