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Writing tagged: ‘richard owen’
Book review: ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ by Deborah Cadbury
The Victorian search for dinosaurs.
Darwin performs a blind test… on some condors
...to see how well they can smell.
How do we know it was Owen?
…who wrote the anonymous, scathing review of ‘On the Origin of Species’?
Archetypes and sterotypes
Brian Switek, FCD, on the Richard Owen (villain) v Thomas Henry Huxley (hero) stereotype.