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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection , and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis .
Jun 18, 2024 · Sir Julian Huxley (born June 22, 1887, London—died Feb. 14, 1975, London) was an English biologist, philosopher, educator, and author who greatly influenced the modern development of embryology, systematics, and studies of behavior and evolution.
Sep 22, 2022 · As a precocious four-year-old in 1892, Julian Huxley was puzzled by a cartoon depicting his grandfather, renowned anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley, examining a bottle of liquid containing a naked ...
Nov 21, 2022 · Defending Darwinism from both clerical and scientific opponents, T. H. Huxley and his grandson Julian shaped how we think about the past and future of our species.
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) (June 22, 1887 – February 14, 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, author, humanist, and internationalist, known for his popularizations of science in books and lectures.
Born in 1887 to the biographer Leonard Huxley and the humanist educationalist Julia Huxley, the young Julian acquired his keen interest in the natural world from his grandfather, the leading biologist and advocate of Darwin’s theory of evolution T.H. Huxley. His passion for biological studies grew, and in 1906 he took up a place to study ...
May 23, 2018 · Julian Sorell Huxley (born 1887), English biologist, writer, and publicist, is the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the son of Leonard Huxley, biographer, poet, and editor, and of Julia Francis, the founder of Priors Field School for Girls, and the older brother of Aldous Huxley. Huxley was King’s scholar at Eton and Brakenbury scholar at ...
