ANTH 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blending Inheritance, Chromosome, Fleeming Jenkin
13 Jun 2016
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By this time, the average well educated person knew darwin and who he was (he had cemented his status) They were either agreeable or outraged, but the origin of species was definitely a bestseller. Some of the critics were richard owen, whom darwin detested. Darwin never partook in loud public debates, though; he used friends to argue on his behalf. Richard owen talked lots about the ape origins of man point. Darwin himself was never that concerned with human origins, particularly because he knew it was controversial. However, that"s what everyone wanted to talk about. Critiques that centred on religious arguments couldn"t really be countered. You were dealing with a different set of rules for the way objective knowledge is known. Major critics in the church of england - majority opposed it. However, some who liked it and thought it demonstrated the miracle of.
