“Sound knowledge respecting the habits and mode of life of the man-like Apes has been even more difficult of attainment than correct information regarding their structure.”

—  Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.1, p. 36

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