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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS [1] (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist.He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis.
Julian Huxley (born 3 August 1979) is a retired Australian rugby union professional footballer. In 2008 he had established himself in the Wallabies and was named Australian Rookie of the Year. [ 1 ] In 2011 he played for the Melbourne Rebels in the Super Rugby competition.
The production was headed by renowned biologist Julian Huxley, who enlisted "some of the top figures in the British scientific and cinematic world" for what "is classed by many as the world's first natural history documentary, its thorough and academic approach a stark contrast to the expedition format of its predecessors."
His views, then, were very close to the agnosticism of Thomas Henry Huxley and the humanism of Julian Huxley. Portrait of Marian Huxley by John Collier, 1883. Collier and his first wife Marian (Mady) had one child, Joyce, a portrait miniaturist. She married twice, first to Leslie Crawshay-Williams, whose family were South Wales ironmasters.
Reviewing the book for American Scientist in 1943, the geologist Kirtley Mather wrote that the book provided "an admirable digest" of decades of work by many scientists. . Mather commented "Of general interest is Huxley’s defense of the Darwinian concept of evolution, under attack by Hogben, Bateson and other biologists, amusingly reminiscent of bygone days when another Huxley championed the ...
Julian Huxley presented a serious but popularising version of the theory in his 1942 book Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. In 1942, Julian Huxley's serious but popularising [70] [71] book Evolution: The Modern Synthesis [2] introduced a name for the synthesis and intentionally set out to promote a "synthetic point of view" on the evolutionary ...
Universal evolution is a theory of evolution formulated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Julian Huxley that describes the gradual development of the Universe from subatomic particles to human society, considered by Teilhard as the last stage.
Julian Huxley used the phrase "the eclipse of Darwinism" [a] to describe the state of affairs prior to what he called the "modern synthesis".During the "eclipse", evolution was widely accepted in scientific circles but relatively few biologists believed that natural selection was its primary mechanism.