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 (Del Cotter) writes:

>I have been reading accounts of Thomas Huxley's famous 1860 encounter with 
>Samuel Wilberforce, but none of them say *exactly* what it was Wilberforce
>said about Huxley's descent from an ape.  Anybody know?

Wilberforce is quoted as asking if 'somebody' (Darwin, for instance), was
descended from an ape on his mother's side, or his father's, Huxley's reply
was that he would rather be descended from an ape than from one who misused
his gifts as Wilberforce did.

My recollection (not of the debate...) is that there were no verbatim
accounts of the debate, (which took place in the Union debating society),
but that it was written up, or reported, later.