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summarise in your own words what Jillian Huxley said in his lecture on evolutionary vision.​

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Julian Huxley

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Sir

Julian Huxley

FRS

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1st Julian Huxley as Fellow of

New College, Oxford 1922

Succeeded by Jaime Torres Bodet

Personal details

Born Julian Sorell Huxley

22 June 1887

London, England

Died 14 February 1975 (aged 87)

London, England

Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford

Known for  

Modern synthesishumanismUNESCOconservationismeugenics

Awards  

Kalinga Prize (1953)

Darwin Medal (1956)

Darwin–Wallace Medal (1958)

Lasker Award (1959)

Scientific career

Fields Evolutionary biology

Institutions  

Rice Institute

New College, Oxford

Kings College, London

London Zoo

UNESCO

Influences  

T. H. Huxley

Influenced  

E. B. FordGavin de BeerAldous Huxley

Military career

Service/branch British Army

Years of service 1917–1919

Rank Second Lieutenant

Unit  

Royal Army Service Corps

Intelligence Corps

Battles/wars First World War

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS[1] (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund and the first President of the British Humanist Association.

Huxley was well known for his presentation of science in books and articles, and on radio and television. He directed an Oscar-winning wildlife film. He was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science in 1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956,[1] and the Darwin–Wallace Medal of the Linnaean Society in 1958. He was also knighted in that same year, 1958, a hundred years after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace announced the theory of evolution by natural selection. In 1959 he received a Special Award of the Lasker Foundation in the category Planned Parenthood – World Population. Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society and was its president from 1959 to 1962.

Contents

1 Life

1.1 Personal life

1.2 Early career

1.3 Mid career

1.4 Later career

2 Special themes

2.1 Evolution

2.1.1 Personal influence

2.1.2 Evolutionary synthesis

2.1.3 Evolutionary progress

2.2 Secular humanism

2.3 Religious naturalism

2.4 Parapsychology

2.5 Eugenics and race

2.6 Public life and popularisation

2.7 Terms coined

2.8 Titles and phrases

3 Works

4 References

5 Biographies

6 External links

Life

See also: Huxley family

Personal life

Huxley came from the Huxley family on his father's side and the Arnold family on his mother's.[2] His great-grandfather was Thomas Arnold of Rugby School, his great-uncle Matthew Arnold, and his aunt Mrs Humphrey Ward. His grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, a friend and supporter of Charles Darwin and proponent of evolution, and his father was writer and editor Leonard Huxley.