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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.
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 ...
Modern synthesis (20th century), the term coined by Julian Huxley in 1942 to denote the synthesis between Mendelian genetics and selection theory. Neo-Darwinism , the term coined by George John Romanes in 1895 to refer to a revision of Charles Darwin's theory first formulated in 1859.
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.
In May 2020, Myka and James revealed in an emotional YouTube video that they had dissolved their adoption of then-4 ½-year-old Huxley, whom they had brought home from China in October 2017 when ...
According to NBC News, the Stauffers used a GoFundMe page to raise money to pay for Huxley’s adoption from China.The couple reportedly earned a total of $800, while they said the adoption cost ...
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.