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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.
Aldous was the 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 Andrew Huxley also became outstanding biologists.
Thomas Huxley, one of the small group with whom Darwin had shared his theory before publication, emerged as the main public champion of evolution. He wrote a favourable review of " Origin " in The Times in December 1859, [ 13 ] along with several other articles and delivered a lecture at the Royal Institution in February 1860.
The British Huxley family. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), British biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British writer, author of Brave New World, grandson of Thomas Huxley; Julian Huxley (1887–1975), British biologist, brother of Aldous Huxley; Andrew Huxley (1917–2012), British biologist, brother of Aldous ...
Huxley's interest in aggressively attacking the scientific establishment earned him the moniker "Darwin's bulldog" in a ferocious dispute with the leading anatomist Richard Owen as to whether the anatomy of brain structure was consistent with humans and apes having shared ancestry. The campaign was devastatingly successful for the Darwinian ...
The combative Thomas Huxley demanded a fair hearing for Darwin's ideas. On 10 February 1860 Huxley gave a lecture titled On Species and Races, and their Origin at the Royal Institution, [50] reviewing Darwin's theory with fancy pigeons on hand to demonstrate artificial selection, as well as using the occasion to confront the clergy with his aim ...
Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his tenacious support of the new theory of evolution by means of natural selection, almost immediately seized upon Archaeopteryx as a transitional fossil between birds and reptiles.
In 1887 Thomas Henry Huxley, the comparative anatomist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his energetic advocacy of Darwinian evolution, [11] wrote that With respect to the Philosophie Zoologique , it is no reproach to Lamarck to say that the discussion of the Species question in that work, whatever might be said for it in 1809, was miserably ...