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On Huxley's death at 87 on 14 February 1975, John Owen (Director of National Parks for Tanganyika) wrote, "Julian Huxley was one of the world's great men … he played a seminal role in wild life conservation in [East] Africa in the early days…
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. Julian, a grandson of the prominent biologist T.H. Huxley, a brother of novelist ...
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 7, 2022 · Julian Huxley, grandson of naturalist Thomas Henry Huxley, was instrumental in developing the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1940s. Credit: PAP/Alamy
Nov 21, 2022 · Julian and Thomas Henry Huxley defended Darwinism from skeptics. Manvir Singh reviews Alison Bashford’s “The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution.”
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.
After serving as Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for Unesco in 1946, Julian Huxley was elected Director- General of the Organization at its first General Conference held in Paris in 1946. Photo right shows Julian Huxley and his wife Juliette at a Unesco function in Paris in the same year.
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.
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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.
Following in the footsteps of his celebrated grandfather Thomas Henry Huxley, Sir Julian Huxley (1887-1975) was one of the twentieth century's leading exponents of evolutionary theory. Also like his grandfather, he espoused a humanistic approach to life.
