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14. Mai 2024 · Julian Huxley FRS (1887-1975), son of Leonard and his first wife Julia Arnold, followed in his grandfather’s footsteps as an evolutionary biologist (although he was also a proponent of eugenics). He was elected a Fellow in 1938 for his ‘contributions in Experimental Zoology and Genetics’; he later received the Darwin Medal in 1956.
Vor 4 Tagen · Julian Huxley was a biologist who popularised the term transhumanism in a 1957 essay. The contemporary meaning of the term "transhumanism" was foreshadowed by one of the first professors of futurology, a man who changed his name to FM-2030.
Vor 4 Tagen · Julian Huxley coined the term in his 1942 book, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. The synthesis combined the ideas of natural selection, Mendelian genetics, and population genetics. It also related the broad-scale macroevolution seen by palaeontologists to the small-scale microevolution of local populations.
Vor 2 Tagen · Besides, there’s no mention in the section of this chapter on Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) of the book’s impact abroad as well as at home (as the British biologist and nature conservationist, Julian Huxley, exclaimed in his preface to the first British edition (1963), ‘as my brother Aldous said after reading Rachel Carson ...
29. Apr. 2024 · Here I discuss the relationship between what Thomas Henry Huxley called “the Man Family” and what Julian Huxley called “the Family of Man.” The first was a nineteenth- century biological proposition. The second was a cultural proposition, part of mid- twentieth century anti-racism that attempted to promote human unity-in ...
Vor 5 Tagen · In 1960 a group of British naturalists—most notably biologist Sir Julian Huxley, artist and conservationist Peter Scott, and ornithologists Guy Mountfort and Max Nicholson—led an effort to establish an organization that protected endangered species and their habitats.
Vor 6 Tagen · Interestingly, she observes, Julian Huxley, who was associated with challenges to scientific racism and had Kenyan connections, supported Gordon as late as 1938, long after many in Britain regarded him as a 'charlatan' (p. 85).
