HUXLEY VERSUS OWEN - THE HIPPOCAMPUS MINOR AND EVOLUTION

Authors
GROSS CG
Citation
Cg. Gross, HUXLEY VERSUS OWEN - THE HIPPOCAMPUS MINOR AND EVOLUTION, Trends in neurosciences, 16(12), 1993, pp. 493-498
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences
Journal title
Trends in neurosciences → ACNP
ISSN journal
01662236
Volume
16
Issue
12
Year of publication
1993
Pages
493 - 498
Database
ISI
SICI code
0166-2236(1993)16:12<493:HVO-TH>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
In Victorian Britain a major debate over evolution raged between Thoma s H. Huxley and Richard Owen. The central issue between them was wheth er or not the human brain was unique in having a hippocampus minor (al so known as the calcar a vis), a posterior horn and a posterior lobe.