Julian Huxley

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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (June 22, 1887 - February 14, 1975) was a British biologist and author.

He was a brother of the writer Aldous Huxley, his father was Leonard Huxley, and his paternal grandfather was the biologist T. H. Huxley. He was also a friend and mentor of the biologist Konrad Lorenz.

Huxley was the first Director General of UNESCO and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund. He wrote popular science books, including Essays of a Biologist and Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. He was knighted in 1958.

Huxley coined the terms "mentifacts", "socifacts" and "artifacts" to describe how cultural traits take on a life of their own, spanning over generations. This idea is related to memetics.

Works

Essays of a Biologist (1923)
Animal Biology (with J. B. S. Haldane, 1927)
Religion Without Revelation (1927, revised 1957)
The Tissue-Culture King (1927)
The Science of Life (with H G Wells - 1931)
Scientific Research and Social Needs (1934)
Thomas Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake (1935)
We Europeans (with A. C. Haddon, 1936)
The Living Thoughts of Darwin (1939)
The New Systematics (1940)
Evolution: the Modern Synthesis (1942)
Evolutionary Ethics (1943)
Touchstone for Ethics (1947)
Man in the Modern World (1947)
Heredity, East and West (1949)
Biological Aspects of Cancer (1957)
Towards a New Humanism (1957)
New Bottles for New Wine (1958)
The Humanist Frame (1962) elaborated to Essays of a Humanist (1964)
From an Antique Land (1966)
The Courtship Habits of the Great Grebe (1968)
Memories (2 vol., 1971 and 1974)

External Links

http://noosphere.cc/huxleymenu.html overview article
http://ne-plus-ultra.org/huxley.htm "Transhumanism" essay from New Bottles for New Wine
http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/library/jh_divin.htm essay from Essays of a Humanist
http://www.rice.edu/fondren/woodson/mss/ms50/ guide to Huxley's papers, 91 linear feet, and a bio.

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