Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley

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philosopher
evolutionary biologist
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley 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, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959–1962), and the first president of the British Humanist Association.

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1887 – 1975
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Born in
London
Educated at
Balliol CollegeEton College
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🏆 Darwin Medal🏆 Kalinga Prize

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  • 1887

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  • 1975

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