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Huxley versus Owen: the hippocampus minor and evolution
1Dept of Psychology, Princeton University, NJ 08544.
Trends in Neurosciences
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
In Victorian Britain a major debate over evolution raged between Thomas H. Huxley and Richard Owen. The central issue between them was whether or not the human brain was unique in having a hippocampus minor (also known as the calcar avis), a posterior horn and a posterior lobe.