George Britton Halford
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George Britton Halford (26 November 1824 – 27 May 1910) was an English-born anatomist and physiologist, founder of the first medical school in Australia, University of Melbourne School of Medicine.
Creationism
Halford was a creationist who rejected evolution.[1] He criticized the idea of common descent and challenged the views of T. H. Huxley. He argued that humans and apes shared no common ancestor.[2] In his book on snake venom he wrote that the snake had been designed by "some omnipotent power with infinite will."[1]
Publications
- On the Time and Manner of Closure of the Auriculo-Ventricular Valves (1861)
- Not Like Man, Bimanous and Biped, nor yet Quadrumanous, but Cheiropodous (1863)
- Lines of Demarcation Between Man, Gorilla, & Macaque (1864)
- Thoughts, Observations and Experiments on the Action of Snake Venom on the Blood (1894)