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8 unusual facts about Julian Huxley


Abraham Cressy Morrison

Abraham Cressy Morrison pubilished a book called Man in a Chemical World in 1937, a work on science for the general public reader, but he is better known for his book Man Does Not Stand Alone which was published in 1944, a Christian rebuttal to Julian Huxley's Man Stands Alone.

Allegorical interpretations of Genesis

Biblical literalism taken for a source of scientific information is making the rounds even nowadays among creationists who would merit Julian Huxley's description of 'bibliolaters.'

Big History

In the first half of the 20th century, secular biologist Julian Huxley originated the term "evolutionary humanism".

Charles Francis Potter

His progressive ideas led him to found, in 1929, the First Humanist Society of New York, whose advisory board included Julian Huxley, John Dewey, Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann.

Emilio Arenales Catalán

1947: UNESCO Deputy Head of Mission to Latin America, together with Sir Julian Huxley and Professor Samuel Ramos.

The Private Life of the Gannets

The Private Life of the Gannets is a 1934 British short documentary film, directed by Julian Huxley, about a colony of Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) on the small rocky island of Grassholm, off the coast of Wales.

Universal evolution

Teilhard's theories are better known in the West (and have also been commented on by Julian Huxley), and integrate Darwinian evolution and Christianity, whilst Vernadsky wrote more purely from a scientific perspective.

Universal evolution is a theory of evolution formulated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Julian Huxley that describes the gradual development of the Universe from subatomic particles to human society, considered by Teilhard as the last stage.


Cass Canfield

He held various executive positions with Harper's in London and New York between then and 1931; among the writers who he signed to Harper's contracts were James Thurber, E. B. White, J. B. Priestley, Harold Laski, John Gunther, and Julian Huxley.

Rosemary Kilbourn

Other books to which she has contributed include Julian Huxley's Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963: a memorial volume, and Richard Outram's South of North: Images of Canada, with drawings by Thoreau MacDonald (2007), for which she selected the poems and drawings.

Woodson Research Center

Personal collections include the papers of the scientist Julian Huxley, his wife Juliette Huxley, and his brother Aldous Huxley.

World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace

Notable politicians, academics, and artists attended, including Pablo Picasso, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie, Bertolt Brecht, Paul Éluard, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, Dominique Desanti, Ilya Ehrenburg, Martin Andersen-Nexo, Sir John Boyd-Orr, Olaf Stapledon, Alexander Fadeyev, Julien Benda, A. J. P. Taylor, William Gropper,


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