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Where did the 30 June 1860 Huxley-Wilberforce evolution exchange take place?
The exchange took place at the Oxford University Museum during the British Association meeting, seven months after Darwin's Origin of Species. The session was moved to the largest room when about 1,000 people tried to attend.
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The Oxford Meeting on 30 June 1860 Where the Bishop Asked if Thomas Huxley Was Descended From an Ape on His Grandfather's or Grandmother's Side At the British Association meeting in Oxford on 30 June 1860, seven months after Darwin's *Origin of Species*, the Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce asked T. H. Huxley whether he claimed descent from apes on his grandfather's or grandmother's side. Huxley reportedly replied that he would rather be descended from an ape than from a bishop who used his great abilities to obscure the truth. The exchange did not happen exactly as the legend records.
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