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   Apr 30, 2024 · Thomas Henry Huxley (born May 4, 1825, Ealing, Middlesex, England—died June 29, 1895, Eastbourne, Sussex) was an English biologist, educator, and advocate of agnosticism (he coined the word). Huxley’s vigorous public support of Charles Darwin ’s evolutionary naturalism earned him the nickname “Darwin’s bulldog,” while his ...

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3. unsworks.unsw.edu.au › server › apiThe Family of Man: Cosmopolitanism and the Huxleys, 1850-1950

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   Apr 29, 2024 · Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) and his grandson Julian Huxley (1887–1975) both pondered the great wonders of modernity. Yet they did so in starkly diff erent political and cultural contexts over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two biologists, they drove forward and communicated the modern story of the theory of evolution by natural

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   May 6, 2024 · Thomas Henry Huxley, an enthusiastic Darwinian, viewed the fossils as proof that “we must extend by long epochs the most liberal estimate that has yet been made of the antiquity of Man ...

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   What did Thomas Henry Huxley say about fossils?

   • Thomas Henry Huxley, an enthusiastic Darwinian, viewed the fossils as proof that “we must extend by long epochs the most liberal estimate that has yet been made of the antiquity of Man.” That extended era soon got a name: “prehistory,” describing the period before humans recorded their existence in writing.

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   Who was Thomas Henry Huxley?

   • Thomas Henry Huxley, born above a butcher’s shop, was the youngest of the six surviving children of schoolmaster George Huxley and his wife, Rachel. Although Huxley received only two years (1833–35) of formal education at his father’s declining Ealing School, its evangelicalism later marked his scientific rhetoric.

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   What did Thomas Carlyle teach Huxley?

   • Thomas Carlyle ’s books taught Huxley that the religious feeling of awe was distinct from theology, which dealt with gods and miraculous events. The teenager speculated (as did radical Dissenters) that morality was a cultural product, which left it open to a scientific explanation.

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   What did Huxley say about Darwinism?

   • Within a decade they were parceling out Royal Society posts. Their mouthpiece was the Reader —in which Huxley, answering Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli’s criticism of Darwinism, notoriously claimed that science would achieve “domination over the whole realm of the intellect”—and Nature (founded in 1869 by Huxley’s team).

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   2 days ago · Huxley's classic lecture on evolution, human nature, and the way to true happinessThomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) was one of the most prominent evolutionists of the late nineteenth century. A close companion of Charles Darwin, Huxley developed a reputation as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his relentless defense of evolutionary theory.

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   May 14, 2024 · Family portrait. History of science. 6 minute read 14 May 2024. The scientific influence of Thomas Henry Huxley FRS reappears throughout the lives of his children and grandchildren, as Ainsley Vinall discovers.

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   May 2, 2024 · Writing in 1851, one of his various scientific nemeses, Thomas Henry Huxley, considered it “astonishing with what an intense feeling of hatred Owen is regarded by the majority of his contemporaries”. 1 Yet, when one of his chief admirers, Richard Doddridge (R. D.) Blackmore, based a character in his latest novel on Owen, that character was ...

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    1 day ago · Huxley's classic lecture on evolution, human nature, and the way to true happinessThomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) was one of the most prominent evolutionists of the late nineteenth century. A close companion of Charles Darwin, Huxley developed a reputation as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his relentless defense of evolutionary theory.