1860 Oxford evolution debate
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The 1860 Oxford evolution debate took place at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England, on 7 July 1860, seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Several
The debate took place in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Charles Darwin, whose theory was at the centre of the debate
Huxley (1871)
Wilberforce (1869)
Charles Darwin
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Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a co
1860 Oxford evolution debate
…The 1860 Oxford evolution debate took place at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England, on 7 July 1860, seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated, including Thomas Henry Huxley, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce…
A chalk drawing of the seven-year-old Darwin in 1816, with a potted plant, by Ellen Sharples. Part of a double portrait showing him together with his sister Catherine.
A bicentennial portrait by Anthony Smith of Darwin as a student, in the courtyard at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he had rooms.
Darwin (right) on the Beagle's deck at Bahía Blanca in Argentina, with fossils; caricature by Augustus Earle, the initial ship's artist