title: Huxley versus Owen: the hippocampus minor and evolution.
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.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Psychology, Princeton University, NJ 08544.
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans