Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.The stories regarding Huxley's famous 1860 Oxford evolution debate with Samuel Wilberforce were a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution and in his own career, although some historians think that the surviving story of the debate is a later fabrication. Huxley had been planning to leave Oxford on the previous day, but, after an encounter with Robert Chambers, the author of ''Vestiges'', he changed his mind and decided to join the debate. Wilberforce was coached by Richard Owen, against whom Huxley also debated about whether humans were closely related to apes.
Huxley was slow to accept some of Darwin's ideas, such as gradualism, and was undecided about natural selection, but despite this, he was wholehearted in his public support of Darwin. Instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain, he fought against the more extreme versions of religious tradition. Huxley coined the term "agnosticism" in 1869 and elaborated on it in 1889 to frame the nature of claims in terms of what is knowable and what is not.
Huxley had little formal schooling and was virtually self-taught. He became perhaps the finest comparative anatomist of the later 19th century. He worked on invertebrates, clarifying relationships between groups previously little understood. Later, he worked on vertebrates, especially on the relationship between apes and humans. After comparing ''Archaeopteryx'' with ''Compsognathus'', he concluded that birds evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs, a view now held by modern biologists.
The tendency has been for this fine anatomical work to be overshadowed by his energetic and controversial activity in favour of evolution, and by his extensive public work on scientific education, both of which had significant effects on society in Britain and elsewhere. Huxley's 1893 Romanes Lecture, "Evolution and Ethics", is exceedingly influential in China; the Chinese translation of Huxley's lecture even transformed the Chinese translation of Darwin's ''Origin of Species''. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1881London : Macmillan and Co., 1881.xxi, 319 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (1 fold.) ; 17 cm. -
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Published 1894New York : D. Appleton, 1894.viii, 430 p. ; 19 cm. -
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Published 1886New York : D. Appleton, 1886.431 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. -
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Published 1885London : Macmillan and Co., 1885.xx, 403 p. : ill. ; 17 cm. -
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Published 1897New York, D. Appleton, 1897.viii, 430 p. 19 cm. -
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Published 1894New York, Macmillan, 1903 [1894]334 p. 18 cm. -
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Published 1888New York, D. Appleton, 1888.xiv, 371 p. illus. 19 cm.Also issued online. -
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Published 1872New York, Appleton, 1872.85 p.Other Authors: “...Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895...”
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Published 1877Berlin : Grieben, 1877.328 p. -
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Published 1900New York, The Macmillan company [etc., etc.] 1900.xvi, [2] p., 1 l., 577 p. illus., pl., tables, diagrs. 20 cm. -
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Published 1905London, Macmillan, 1905.451 p.