Re: Alabama senator Hillary Herbert & birds with teeth

[Augusto Haro <augustoharo@gmail.com>]

011/1/22 Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. <tholtz@umd.edu>:
> Also, there is a tendency of these things to be very pro-Cope, because
> (let's face it) Marsh was a jerk as a person. BUT one could also highlight
> Cope's obsessions with generating a larger total publication record, or
> (okay, this is a bit Whiggish, but...) Cope's lack of acceptance of
> natural selection (as opposed to Marsh's strong embrace of and promotion
> of it).

We may also remember his racism (something is also commonly pardoned
to Huxley), even if it was widespread among intellectuals in these
times.