Magento 1.9 – How to Enable Recently Viewed Products on Product Details Page

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In magento 1.9.2.4, in the product details page, I want to display 'Recently viewed products' in place of description. How to do that? How to call the product_viewed.phtml into the place where description section is residing now as below:
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Best Answer

For replacing Description with Recently View products replace this code from catalog.xml

<block type="catalog/product_view_description" name="product.description" as="description" template="catalog/product/view/description.phtml">
    <action method="addToParentGroup"><group>detailed_info</group></action>
    <action method="setTitle" translate="value"><value>Description</value></action>
</block>

TO :

<block type="reports/product_viewed" name="product.description" as="description" template="reports/product_viewed.phtml">
    <action method="addToParentGroup"><group>detailed_info</group></action>
    <action method="setTitle" translate="value"><value>Description</value></action>
</block>

For Adding NEW TAB for Recently View products, Replace

<block type="catalog/product_view_description" name="product.description" as="description" template="catalog/product/view/description.phtml">
    <action method="addToParentGroup"><group>detailed_info</group></action>
    <action method="setTitle" translate="value"><value>Description</value></action>
</block>

WITH: 

<block type="catalog/product_view_description" name="product.description" as="description" template="catalog/product/view/description.phtml">
    <action method="addToParentGroup"><group>detailed_info</group></action>
    <action method="setTitle" translate="value"><value>Description</value></action>
</block>
<block type="reports/product_viewed" name="product.recentview" as="recentview" template="reports/product_viewed.phtml">
    <action method="addToParentGroup"><group>detailed_info</group></action>
    <action method="setTitle" translate="value"><value>Recently View</value></action>
</block>
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