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	Thomas Huxley
		Thomas Henry Huxley was one of the first adherents to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and did more than anyone else to advance its acceptance among scientists and the public alike.
		Huxley's support for natural selection is perhaps surprising when contrasted with his earlier attacks on the evolutionary theories put forth by Lamarck and Robert Chambers.
		Huxley wrote, "the progress of a higher animal in development is not through the forms of the lower, but through forms which are common to both lower and higher.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/thuxley.html (1283 words)

	Thomas Huxley - MSN Encarta
		Thomas Henry Huxley was born in Ealing, Middlesex, on May 4, 1825, and educated at Charing Cross Hospital, London.
		His observations on the medusa family of jellyfish led to the formulation of the zoological class Hydrozoa and to the realization that the two germ layers found in members of this class are comparable to the two germ layers that arise in the early embryological stages of higher animals.
		Huxley became professor of natural history and paleontology at the Royal School of Mines, London, in 1854.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553436/Thomas_Huxley.html (324 words)

	Thomas Henry Huxley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley F.R.S. May 4, 1825 – June 29, 1895) was a British biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his defence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
		Huxley was born in Ealing in west London, being the seventh of eight children of George Huxley, a teacher of mathematics in Ealing.
		Huxley was the founder of a very distinguished Family of British academics, including his grandsons Aldous Huxley (the writer), Sir Julian Huxley (the first Director General of UNESCO and founder of the World Wildlife Fund), and Sir Andrew Huxley (the physiologist and Nobel laureate).
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	Thomas Henry Huxley Biography \| scit_0512_package.xml
		Huxley was a major figure behind the propagation of Darwin's theory of evolution and a noted advocate of science education.
		Huxley contributed to the growing study of the classification of organisms by studying fossils.
		Huxley countered these evolutionary pessimists by saying that if there was no direction or purpose given to life by God, then man must take the initiative and give himself purpose and a reason to live.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/thomas-henry-huxley-scit-0512 (768 words)

	Thomas Henry Huxley Biography \| World of Genetics
		Huxley's agnosticism, or the belief that humans cannot know anything that is outside the realm of their personal experiences, became a central philosophical theme of his devotion to the advancement of scientific thinking among the public at large.
		Huxley's most famous work, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature, addressed the biological association of man and primitive apes as well as sought to explain the ramification of evolutionary theory on man's perception of his place in the universe--a question that was previously pondered only by theologians.
		Huxley was appointed by Prime Minister, Robert Cecil, to the Privy Council in 1892.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/thomas-henry-huxley-wog (928 words)

	Thomas Henry Huxley
		Huxley was a scientist during the Victorian age when religion was being challenged by the theories and discoveries of a growing and developing science.
		Huxley had the following written on his tomb and the statement is typical of his view of life:
		It was Huxley who coined the term "agnostic" in 1869 to mean one who thinks it is impossible to know whether there is a God or a future life, or anything beyond material phenomena.
	www.mtsu.edu /~socwork/frost/god/huxley.htm (484 words)

	Thomas Henry Huxley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Huxley was born on May 4, 1825.
		Huxley started a medical apprenticeship at the age of fifteen and was assigned to the H.M.S. Rattlesnake, a navy ship.
		Thomas Huxley was an important man in the scientific community.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/huxley_thomas_henry.html (327 words)

	Thomas Henry Huxley Papers, American Philosophical Society
		Huxley was born on May 4, 1825 in Ealing, outside of London, the seventh of eight children.
		Huxley supported himself on a naval stipend and by writing popular science articles, until he was awarded a lectureship at the School of Mines in London in 1854.
		Thoroughout his public life, Huxley found himself severely criticized by members of the clergy; he also had an on-going argument with the anatomist and taxonomist Richard Owen, who believed that primates lacked a hippocampus in their brains and therefore evolution from ape to man was impossible.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/h/huxley.htm (1010 words)

	Huxley \| Thomas Henry \| 1825-1895 \| man of science
		Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), popularly known as 'Darwin's Bulldog' because of his defence of the theories of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), was a much more complex person than this simplistic image of an unquestioning defender of Darwinism would suggest.
		Aged 14, Huxley attended a post-mortem, and seems to have caught a disease or poisoning (the nature of which is not known precisely) that affected his health for the rest of his life, requiring occasional recuperative trips to the countryside.
		Huxley was, however, not completely unthinking in his praise, in 1862, in his address to the Geological Society, he announced that he saw natural selection as a hypothesis, as there was not yet any evidence of specialisation of animals through the eras, which the theory of natural selection predicted.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0305.html (1202 words)

	Thomas Huxley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Huxley's most famous debate was against Archbishop Samuel Wilberforce who was coached by Richard Owen(who he also debated against) demonstrated that there were close similarities between the cerebral anatomy of humans and gorillas.
		Huxley, born in Ealing in west London, was the second youngest of eight children of George Huxley, a teacher of mathematics in Ealing.
		Huxley's concept was influential in the development of the theory of the Nordic race.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Huxley (1832 words)

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	Thomas Henry Huxley: the evolution of a scientist. - Review - book review Ecology - Find Articles
		Thomas Henry Huxley: the evolution of a scientist.
		The stated purpose for the book is to define Huxley as a scientist, although Lyons recognizes that the "production of scientific knowledge does not occur in a vacuum." She consequently does address, at least in passing, relevant religious, philosophical, political, and socioeconomic questions of the mid-l9th century.
		A concluding statement to the effect that Huxley quite accurately noted that nature is too complex to fit within the confines of a single theory would have sufficed, and might well have served as a more effective summary of this analysis of the contributions by one of the 19th century's most influential scientists.
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	Huxley, Thomas Henry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Huxley gave up his own biological research to become an influential scientific publicist and was the principal exponent of Darwinism in England.
		He placed human ethics outside the scope of the materialistic processes of evolution; he believed that civilization is man’s protest against nature and that progress is achieved by the human control of evolution.
		Huxley held numerous public offices, serving on 10 royal commissions (1862–84).
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	Thomas Henry Huxley Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Although Huxley was among the privileged few to hear the outlines of Darwin's theory in advance of publication, his active support for the theory seems to begin with the publication in November 1859 of the Origin of Species.
		Huxley suggested to Darwin that he had committed himself too exclusively to the notion of insensible gradations in variation; Huxley believed that variation might sometimes take place in larger and more clearly defined steps (what might today be called mutations).
		Huxley was Fullerian professor of physiology at the Royal Institution (1856-1858), examiner in physiology and comparative anatomy for the University of London (1856-1863, 1865-1870); and Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons (1863-1870).
	www.bookrags.com /biography/thomas-henry-huxley (1245 words)

	Thomas Huxley Darwin's Bulldog
		Thomas Henry Huxley was however a man of a different mettle!!!
		He was known to be both intellectual brilliant and also to relish intense debate and was to become remarkable as the foremost supporter in England for the theory of Evolution.
		Huxley's lectures on organic evolution, which he gave to numerous lay and scientific audiences at various times and places from 1860 until his death, contributed greatly to the acceptance of the theory of Evolution by the scientific community and the wider public.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /philosophy/huxley_darwins_bulldog.html (464 words)

	Thomas Henry Huxley [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Henry Huxley, the distinguished zoologist and advocate of Darwinism, madeseveral incursions into philosophy.
		From his youth he had studied its problems unsystematically; he had a way of going straight to the point in any discussion; and, judged by a literary standard, he was a great master of expository and argumentative prose.
		Huxley is credited with the invention of the term 'agnosticism' to describe his philosophical position: it expresses his attitude towards certain traditional questions without giving any clear delimitation of the frontiers of the knowable.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/h/huxley.htm (407 words)

	Rocky Road: Thomas Henry Huxley
		Huxley replied that he would prefer to be the grandson of an ape than related to a man who misused his intellect on matters of such importance.
		With equal candor, Huxley remarked of Darwin's book, "Old ladies, of both sexes, consider it a decidedly dangerous book.") Although Huxley is often described as the winner of the debate, Wilberforce's supporters swore he won the day.
		Huxley observed few significant differences between Neanderthal fossils and modern humans, then asked, "Do the fossilized remains of an Ape more anthropoid, or a Man more pithecoid, than any yet known await the researches of some unborn paleontologist?" (In fact, the future paleontologist was five by the time Huxley wondered — he was Eugène Dubois.)
	www.strangescience.net /huxley.htm (903 words)

	Thomas Henry Huxley biography
		Thomas Huxley was born into somewhat straitened family circumstances in Ealing near London on May 4, 1825.
		Thomas Huxley received his medical degree from the University of London in 1845 and was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons.
		Thomas Huxley's lectures on organic evolution, which he gave to numerous lay and scientific audiences at various times and places from 1860 until his death, contributed greatly to the acceptance of the theory of Evolution by the scientific community and the wider public.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /philosophy/thhuxley.html (444 words)

	The Athenaeum - Thomas Henry Huxley
		To Huxley, learning only from textbooks was a waste of time (a view reinforced by experience: Early in his career he overturned one textbook "fact" after another simply by conducting his own careful examination of "facts" everyone already thought they knew).
		Thomas Henry Huxley, F.R.S., LL.D., the naturalist, was born [1825] at Ealing, Middlesex, England, where his father was a master of a school.
		Huxley's contribution to it constitutes one of the glories of the Nineteenth Century.
	www.lexicorps.com /Huxley.htm (2988 words)

	Thomas Henry Huxley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Huxley did not have the option of funding himself, but by incredible hard work and tenacity he managed to make his way within a system not designed to give any financial support or salary to scientists.
		Huxley became an expert on plankton, the drifting, mostly microscopic, organisms that inhabit the surface oceans of the world.
		Huxley also helped to set in place mechanisms for scientific positions to be given attached salaries, taking science away from the exclusive province of the rich.
	www.soes.soton.ac.uk /staff/tt/eh/huxley.html (266 words)

	THE HUXLEY FILE
		Huxley's career testifies to the richness of scientific investigation, the establishment of young rebels as a powerful party, and the pervasive intrusions of secularism during the Victorian period.
		On the inequality of the races and genders, Thomas Huxley was not so keen or humane a radical as John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, but did help to diminish stereotypes about skin color and stature being signals of intellectual and emotional value.
		Though these categories are designed to help understand Huxley's contributions, it's important to note that he was not a strict disciplinarian–a river of text, essay or letter, could and often did flow with relevant material on all of these and other tributaries as well.
	aleph0.clarku.edu /huxley (972 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: T. H. Huxley: Science and Culture, 1880
		Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) was born at Ealing, near London, and, having studied medicine, went to sea as assistant surgeon in the navy.
		Outside of this particular issue, he was a vigorous opponent of supernaturalism in all its forms, and a supporter of the agnosticism which demands that nothing shall be believed "with greater assurance than the evidence warrants" - the evidence intended being, of course, of the same kind as that admitted in natural science.
		Whatever may be the exact magnitude of his services to pure science, he was a master in the writing of English for the purposes of exposition and controversy, and a powerful intellectual influence on almost all classes in his generation.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1880huxley-scicult.html (4927 words)

	Thomas Henry Huxley timeline - Natural History Museum
		Thomas Henry Huxley was a pioneering biologist and educator.
		Thomas Henry Huxley was one of the intellectual giants of the nineteenth century.
		Huxley returns to England and is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /nature-online/evolution/how-did-evol-theory-develop/evol-thomas-huxley/thomas-huxley-timeline.html (213 words)

	Natural Selection - Storytime
		Thomas Huxley grew up at a time when England was in the worst depression of the century.
		Thomas was an apprentice to a druggist in that part of town.
		Thomas barely knew his siblings because they were all much older.
	peer.tamu.edu /curriculum_modules/Ecosystems/Module_1/storytime.htm (545 words)

	The Huxley File § 4 Darwin's Bulldog
		Huxley was a defender of the idea that evolution had occurred, but not of natural selection as its explanation.
		Huxley was in 1888 awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, an honor which inspired him to crow and flap his wings.
		Huxley listened patiently to a BAAS address given in August was pleased at the thorough acceptance of evolutionary theory, the immutability of species having been discarded.
	aleph0.clarku.edu /huxley/guide4.html (2984 words)

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