“Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

One of a series of exchanges when Richard Owen repeated generally repudiated claims about the Gorilla brain in a Royal Institution lecture. Athenaeum (13 April 1861) p. 498; Browne Vol 2, p. 159
1860s

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English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825–1895

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