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Huxley's Mans' Place in Nature p. 74 - 13 Ribs

p. 110 Owen quotation of similarity of man & apes

Reference:

Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1863. Evidence as to man's place in nature. London: Williams and Norgate. [inscribed] CUL-DAR.LIB.313 PDF
Page 110: "Prof. Owen writes:  'Not being able to appreciate or conceive of the distinction between the psychical phenomena of a Chimpanzee and of a Boschisman or of an Aztec, with arrested brain growth, as being of a nature so essential as to preclude a comparison between them, or as being other than a difference of degree, I cannot shut my eyes to the significance of that 'all-pervading similitude of structure— every tooth, every bone, strictly homologous—which makes the determination of the difference between Homo and Pithecus the anatomist's difficulty.'" Darwin marked this passage in his copy. See the PDF.