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Huxley was one of many intellectuals at the time who believed that the lowest class in society was genetically inferior. [citation needed] In this passage, from 1941, he investigates a hypothetical scenario where Social Darwinism, capitalism, nationalism and the class society is taken for granted:
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 Aldous Huxley ...
The term "transhumanism" was coined by Aldous Huxley's brother, the evolutionary biologist and First Director-General of UNESCO, Julian Huxley (1887–1975): "I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is ...
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...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.”
In 1961 Julian Huxley brought together 25 distinguished people to present their view of existence in a book called The Humanist Frame. He wrote: “…the increase of knowledge is driving us towards the radically new type of idea-system which I have called Evolutionary Humanism…Humanism is seminal.
