From Molecule To Man


By 2020, NIH investigators over 68 will outnumber those under 38.  Source: NIH

For various reasons, scientific and unscientific, much had been made of the hiatus bctwecn man atnd the: rest of the higher mammalia, and it is no wonder that issue was first joined on this part of the controversy. I have no wish to revive past and happily forgotten controversies, but I must state the simple fact that the distinctions in cerebral and other characters, which were so hotly affirmed to separate man from all other animals in 186o, have all been demonstrated to be non-existent, and that the contrary doctrine is now universally accepted and taught.

Thomas Henry Huxley, THE COMING OF AGE OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, Science 3 July 1880 os-1: 15-20 [DOI: 10.1126/science.os-1.2.15]

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