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The "Brain article" of Huxley bore the title "On the Zoological Relations of Man with the Lower Animals," and appeared in No.
1, January 1861, page 67.
It was Mr. Huxley's vindication of the unqualified contradiction given by him at the Oxford meeting of the British Association to Professor Owen's assertions as to the difference between the brains of man and the higher apes.
The sentence omitted by Owen in his lecture before the University of Cambridge was a footnote on the close structural resemblance between Homo and Pithecus, which occurs in his paper on the characters of the class Mammalia in the "Linn.
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