St. George Jackson Mivart

Author Bio:

St. George Jackson Mivart (1827–1900) was a Victorian naturalist and expert in primate comparative anatomy. A London-born convert to Catholicism, he gained fame for On the Genesis of Species (1871), a scientific critique of Darwinian natural selection. Mivart wrote extensively on mammalian anatomy and humanity’s spiritual nature but later faced conflict with both Darwinists and Catholic authorities, dying excommunicated.