Of Apes and Ancestors

Ian Hesketh is an ARC Future Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Charles Darwin: Historian of Natural History2 The Struggles of Soapy Sam3 Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen; or, Darwin's Bulldog and the Queer Fish4 Joseph Dalton Hooker and the Early History of a Great Friendship 5 The Oxford Debate6 Remembering the Oxford DebateEpilogue: The History of the PresentNotesBibliographyIndex

'Hesketh does an effective job of summarizing current historical thought on the Oxford debate. Of Apes and Ancestors serves as a welcome primer.' - Richard Bellon (ISIS vol 101:04:10) ‘Of Apes and Ancestors is a thought-provoking account of the Oxford debate. It would be particularly valuable at the undergraduate level, where it would serve as an engaging introduction to Charles Darwin, his theory of evolution, and the controversy it created in mid-nineteenth-century England.’ - Todd Webb, Canadian Journal of History: Winter 2010 ‘Apes and Ancestors is short, well written and accessible, and with less than two hundred pages of text it will serve undergraduate audiences. It might usefully provoke them to think about the relationship between the present and the past, about the practice of history, and about the cultural role of the historian.’ - Piers J. Hale, Victorian Review, vol 37:01:2011 ‘Ian Hesketh has given us a handy treatment of the well-known Oxford debate… He has gathered everything needed for a more balanced view of events into one convenient little volume.’ - Frederick Gregory (Journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences; vol 33:03:2011)