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Figure 1.5
Darwin’s British supporters:
(a) Joseph Dalton Hooker
(1817–1911) on a botanical
expedition in Sikkim in 1849
(after a sketch by William
Tayler), and (b) Thomas
Henry Huxley (1825–95).
Darwin called Huxley
“my general agent.”
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Figure 1.4
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), photographed in 1848.
Evolution was less controversial among professional scientists. Many biologists
came almost immediately to accept evolution. The new theory in some cases made
remarkably little difference to day-to-day biological research. The kind of comparative
anatomy practiced by the followers of Cuvier, including Owen, lent itself equally well
to a post-Darwinian search for pedigrees as to the pre-Darwinian search for “plans”
of nature. The leading anatomists were by now mainly German. Carl Gegenbauer
(1826–1903), one of the major figures, had soon reorientated his work to the tracing
(a) (b)