Richard Owen vigorously defended the classification suggested by Georges Cuvier and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach that placed humans in a separate order from any of the other mammals, which by the early 19th century had become the orthodox view.
Richard Owen defendía vigorosamente a clasificación suxerida por Georges Cuvier e Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, que situaba os humanos nunha orde separada de calquera outro animal, o cal desde os inicios do século XIX se convertera na visión ortodoxa.