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In 1912, his father married Rosalind Bruce, who was the same age as Julian, and he later acquired half-brothers Andrew Huxley and David Huxley. [ 2 ] In 1911, Huxley became informally engaged to Kathleen Fordham, whom he had met some years earlier when she was a pupil at Prior's Field, Compton, the school his mother had founded and run.
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."
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
what did wikileaks publish that caused such a stir? In April 2010, WikiLeaks released a video showing a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters ...
The biologist Julian Huxley is generally regarded as the founder of transhumanism after using the term for the title of an influential 1957 article. [6] But the term derives from a 1940 paper by the Canadian philosopher W. D. Lighthall. [32] Huxley describes transhumanism in these terms: