Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS HonFRSE FLS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy...
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Agnosticism (redirect from Thomas Henry Huxley and agnosticism)
exists or the belief that God does not exist." The English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley said that he originally coined the word agnostic in 1869 "to denote...
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the zoologist and comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895). His grandsons include Aldous Huxley (author of Brave New World and The Doors...
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Leonard Huxley (11 December 1860 – 3 May 1933) was an English schoolteacher, writer and editor. Huxley's father was the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley, commonly...
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in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley. Nellie and Major Josceline Grant, Elspeth's...
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His grandfather Thomas Henry Huxley was raised Anglican but eventually became an advocate of Agnosticism, a word he coined. Thomas was also a friend...
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grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic, and controversialist who had often been called "Darwin's Bulldog". His brother Julian Huxley and half-brother...
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Look up huxley in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Huxley may refer to: Huxley (surname) The British Huxley family Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), British...
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X Club (redirect from Thomas Henry Huxley X Club)
selection and academic liberalism in late 19th-century England. Thomas Henry Huxley was the initiator; he called the first meeting for 3 November 1864...
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north of the Montes Apenninus. It was named after British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley. To the southeast in this range is Mons Ampère. This crater was previously...
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1860 Oxford evolution debate (redirect from Wilberforce-Huxley debate)
Thomas Henry Huxley, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, Benjamin Brodie, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Robert FitzRoy. The encounter is often known as the Huxley–Wilberforce...
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Sauropsida (section Huxley and the fossil gaps)
basal sauropsids. The term "Sauropsida" originated in 1864 with Thomas Henry Huxley, who grouped birds with reptiles based on fossil evidence. The term...
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Matthew Huxley (19 April 1920 – 10 February 2005) was a British-American epidemiologist and anthropologist, as well as an educator and author. His work...
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Wallace Line (redirect from Huxley Line)
University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06385-6. OCLC 17841313. Huxley, Thomas Henry (January 1868). "December 10, 1868". Proceedings of the Zoological...
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illustrations by Linley Sambourne, Huxley and Owen are caricatured, studying a captured water baby. In 1892 Thomas Henry Huxley's five-year-old grandson Julian...
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d—d liars, and experts." Quoted in 1900 in Leonard Huxley's The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. Colin White traces the origins to François Magendie...
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then newly discovered fossils of Archaeopteryx and Hesperornis, Thomas Henry Huxley pronounced that they had evolved from dinosaurs, a group formally...
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John Collier (painter) (category Huxley family)
painters of his generation. Both of his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Eton College, and he studied painting in Paris...
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restrictions, and other opinions based in prejudice. For example, Thomas Henry Huxley (1870) classified all populations of Asian nations as Mongoloid....
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which is artificial,” as Thomas Hobbes put it. — Frans de Waal, Our Inner Ape A few centuries later, Thomas Henry Huxley developed the idea that moral...
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Vestiges of Creation. Darwin monitored the debate closely, cheering on Thomas Henry Huxley's battles with Richard Owen to remove clerical domination of the scientific...
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Naval College, London. After examination by the eminent biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, the Admiralty concluded that the remains were those of Le Vesconte...
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Parastacidae (category Taxa named by Thomas Henry Huxley)
representative is also a fossil, Aenigmastacus crandalli from Canada. T. H. Huxley (1879). The Crayfish: an Introduction to the Study of Zoology. London: C...
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about the anatomy of ape and human uniqueness. The dispute between Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen became central to the scientific debate on human...
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Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature is an 1863 book by Thomas Henry Huxley, in which he gives evidence for the evolution of humans and apes from a common...
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family: Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), British biologist, supporter of Charles Darwin and inventor of the term 'agnosticism' Leonard Huxley (writer)...
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Hypsilophodon (category Taxa named by Thomas Henry Huxley)
rather than a new taxon. This was unquestioned until 1867, when Thomas Henry Huxley compared the vertebrae and metatarsals of the specimen more closely...
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Ornithoscelida (section Huxley's concept)
of dinosaurs. An order Ornithoscelida was originally proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley but later abandoned in favor of Harry Govier Seeley's division of...
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OCLC 1053000064. Huxley, Thomas Henry (September 23, 1876). "Evidences of Evolution—III: Prof. Huxley's Closing Lecture in New-York". Prof. Huxley in America...
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