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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: English anatomists, Scottish anatomists, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Harvey, John Abernethy, John Hunter, Richard Owen, Robert Knox, Astley Cooper, William Hunter, Thomas Willis, Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, John Struthers, John Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield, Matthew Baillie, Richard Quain, John Marshall, Henry Gray, Alexander Monro, Archibald Pitcairne, George Britton Halford, Thomas Wharton, James Bell Pettigrew, James Keill, William Cowper, Benjamin Bell, John Hilton, Arthur Bankart, Harold Ellis, Andrew Combe, John Banister, Francis Kiernan, John Goodsir, James Couper Brash, James Douglas, John Munro, Campbell De Morgan, Charles Edward Beevor, Robert Whitaker, Thomas Vicary, Samuel Osborne Habershon, Francis Glisson, Francis Sibson, William Cumberland Cruikshank, Charles Scarborough, Henry Vandyke Carter, Edward Tyson, John Browne, John Barclay, William Turner, Charles Barrett Lockwood, Alexander Cave, Charles Stewart, James Russell, Joshua Brookes, Henry Jones Shrapnell, John Lizars, British Association of Clinical Anatomists, J. G. Garson. Excerpt: Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895) was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career. Huxley had been planning to leave Oxford on the previous day, but, after an encounter with Robert Chambers, the author of Vestiges, he changed his mind and decided to join the debate. Wilberforce was coached by Richard Owen, against whom Huxley also debated whether humans were closely related to apes. Huxley was slow to accept some of Darwin's ideas, such as gradualism, and was undecided about natural selection, but despite...
