How to use in-sentence of “huxley”:
– The term was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in April 1860.
– Julian Huxley and the eugenical view of human evolution.
– The name was a reference of the Aldous Huxley book “The Doors of Perception” whose name came from a verse of the famous poet William Blake; “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”.
– These include the British Science Festival, British Science Week, the CREST Awards, Huxley Summit, Youth Pannle, Media Fellowships Scheme.
– Thomas Henry Huxley remarked that Kelvin’s calculations were good, but his assumptions were wrong.
Example sentences of “huxley”:
– The evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley was also a supporter of eugenics.
– The fossil record at Joggins figures in Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”, and played a role in the 1860 Oxford evolution debate between Thomas Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce.
– Andrew Huxley was a Nobel prize winning physiologist and was appointed to the Order of Merit.
– In the book Huxley gives evidence for the evolution of man and apes from a common ancestor.
– Selma Huxley Barkham, was an English-Canadian historian and geographer.
– Studies by Charles Otis Whitman, Oskar Heinroth and Julian Huxley set the tone in the 20th century.
– In the post-war years, after the realisation that eugenic ideas had become tainted by the Nazis, Huxley coined the term “transhumanism” to describe the view that man should better himself through science and technology, possibly including eugenics, but also, importantly, the improvement of the social environment.
– At the historic debate on evolution held at the Oxford on 30 June 1860, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, Benjamin Brodie and Robert FitzRoy spoke against Darwin’s theory, and Hooker and Thomas Henry Huxley defended it.
– Eutheria was introduced by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880.
– Huxley came from the distinguished Huxley family.
- The evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley was also a supporter of eugenics.
- The fossil record at Joggins figures in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", and played a role in the 1860 Oxford evolution debate between Thomas Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce.
- Andrew Huxley was a Nobel prize winning physiologist and was appointed to the Order of Merit.