Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS HonFRSE FLS 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.
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.
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Science, Evolution, Zoology, Physiology, Biology, History, Comparative Anatomy, Agnosticism, Biography, Crayfish, Ethnology, Religion and science, Evolution (Biology), Naturalists, Geology, Human beings, Origin, Anatomy, Apes, Bible and science, Controversial literature, Ethics, Miracles, Paleontology, VertebratesPeople
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), David Hume (1711-1776), George Berkeley (1685-1753), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), David Hume (1711-1776,), Jesus Christ, Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Joseph Priestly (1733-1804), St. George Jackson Mivart (1827-1900)ID Numbers
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- T. H. Huxley
- Thomas H. Huxley
- HUXLEY T H
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- Thomas Henry 1825-1895 Huxley
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