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Previous Volume 338:337-338 January 29, 1998 Number 5

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By Adrian Desmond. 820 pp. Reading, Mass., Addison–Wesley, 1997. $37.50. ISBN 0-201-95987-9.

All of us know Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) as the earliest and most ardent advocate of the then heretical view Charles Darwin expounded in The Origin of Species. "My good & kind agent for the propagation of the Gospel," Darwin called him. In fact, it was Huxley, not Darwin, who enraptured and outraged audiences in the 1860s with talk of our ape ancestors and cavemen. But we know little else of this raven-haired figure with sunken, flashing black eyes and a lashing tongue, as handsome as an Apollo. Hence, my strong recommendation of this book by Adrian Desmond, who is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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