The English biologist and author Julian Huxley (1887-1975) helped establish the modern synthetic theory of evolution by natural selection and served as first director of the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization (UNESCO). Sir Julian...

1887-1975 British biologist who specialized in ornithology, but is best known for his contribution to the neo-Darwinian synthesis. He was the grandson of the famous Darwinist T.H. Huxley, and became a professor at King's College in London. In...

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887–14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis....

HUXLEY. By Adrian Desmond. Michael Joseph; 475 pages; Pounds 20 HE WAS known as "Darwin's bulldog". A newly converted Paul preaching the gospel of evolution written by the retiring Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley dashed into the evolutionary dogfight, mauling the clerics...

He thought of the millions who had been and were still being slaughtered ... he thought of their pain, all the countless separate pains of them; pain incommunicable, individual, beyond the reach of sympathy ... pain without sense or object, bringing with it...