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Man's Place in Nature
''Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature'' is an 1863 book by Thomas Henry Huxley, in which he gives evidence for the evolution of man and apes from a common ancestor. It was the first book devoted to the topic of human evolution, and discussed much of the anatomical and other evidence. Backed by this evidence, the book proposed to a wide readership that evolution applied as fully to man as to all other life.
== Precursors of the idea ==
In the 18th century Linnaeus and others had classified man as a primate, but without drawing evolutionary conclusions. It was Lamarck, the first to develop a coherent theory of evolution, who discussed human evolution in this context.〔Lamarck J.B. 1914 (). ''Zoological philosophy: an exposition with regard to the natural history of animals''. Translated by Hugh Elliot. Macmillan, London. p169–173〕 Robert Chambers in his anonymous ''Vestiges'' also clearly made the point.〔(Robert ) 1844. ''Vestiges of the natural history of creation''. p217–218〕
The book came five years after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace announced their theory of evolution by means of natural selection,〔Darwin C. & Wallace W.R. 1858. On the Tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and Species by natural means of selection. ''Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology'' 3: 46-50. .〕 and four years after the publication of Darwin's ''Origin of Species''. In the ''Origin'' Darwin had deliberately avoided tackling human evolution, but left a gnomic trailer: "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history".〔Darwin, Charles 1859. ''On the origin of species by means of natural selection''. Murray, London. p488. (488 ).〕 Darwin's sequel came eight years later, with ''The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex'' (1871).
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