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A century before Darwin, biologist Carl Linnaeus put humans in the same category as apes. Did it cause a similar theologic controversy at the time as it did with Darwin later, and why is Darwin rather than Linnaeus largely credited with this link in popular science?

by /u/GeneReddit123 in /r/AskHistorians

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