This cline is an example of a ring species. Some of Huxley's last contributions to the evolutionary synthesis were on the subject of ecological genetics.

The World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Airstrip One in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are both fictional examples of command economies, albeit with diametrically opposed aims: The former is a consumer economy designed to engender productivity while the latter is a shortage economy designed as an agent of totalitarian social control.

In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett ' distinguishes between a purely metaphysical sense of epiphenomenalism, in which the epiphenomenon has no causal impact at all, and Huxley's " steam whistle " epiphenomenalism, in which effects exist but are not functionally relevant.

Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World envisions a futuristic world in which large numbers of clones are cultivated industrially and conditioned before birth for specific castes.

Related to Social SF and Soft SF are the speculative fiction branches of utopian or dystopian stories ; George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, are examples.

A " sexually ambivalent " young man (' Murugan Mailendra ') in Aldous Huxley's Island ( 1962 ) is likened to Antinous, and his lover Colonel Dipa ( an older man ) to Hadrian, after the narrator discovers the two are having a secret affair.

This group encompasses all now-living reptiles as well as birds, and as such is comparable to Goodrich's classification, the difference being that better resolution of the early amniote tree has split up most of the Goodrich's " Protosauria ", though definitions of Sauropsida essentially identical to Huxley's ( i. e. including the mammal-like reptiles ) are also forwarded.

* And finally Winter myths are dystopias, for example George Orwell's 1984 or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World or Ayn Rand's novella Anthem.

Through a series of misunderstandings, Baravelli and Pinky are recruited to play on Huxley's football team ; this requires them to enroll as students at Huxley, which creates chaos throughout the school.

This is Huxley's theoretical state of mind which humans are normally oblivious to, due to learned social norms and partially due to their biology.

In Huxley's dystopian future, children are grown in artificial wombs before being decanted into the world.

* A scenario similar to Huxley's is true for Logan's Run, where embryos are extracted from impregnated women to be grown in meccano-breeders by a computer-controlled life-support system.

Weeks later Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature showed that anatomically, humans are apes, then The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates provided empirical evidence of natural selection.

" In other words, if you are not suited to knowing something, you do not know it: which makes knowing the Ground of all being difficult, in Huxley's view.

Both Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Boye's Kallocain are drug dystopias, or societies in which pharmacology is used to suppress opposition to authority.

Modern biology confirms Huxley's criticism of De Blainville's Actinozoa, and upholds Hydrozoa, but it is now known that the Ctenophora are only distantly related to jellyfish and their relatives, so Huxley's Actinozoa and Coelentera are no longer used ( though the name Actinozoa is occasionally applied to the Anthozoa ).

A number of respected writers of mainstream literature have written science fiction, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, Anthony Burgess ' A Clockwork Orange and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

George Orwell believed that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ) must be partly derived from We.

A fictional universe can be contained in a single work, as in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, or in serialized, series-based, open-ended or round robin-style fiction.

Inspired by her visit to the Soviet Union in 1928 and her visit to Germany during the rise of Nazism, it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( though written almost a decade before Orwell's magnum opus ).

In January 1871, Thomas Huxley's former disciple, the anatomist St. George Mivart, had published On the Genesis of Species as a devastating critique of natural selection.

Island is Huxley's utopian counterpart to his most famous work, the 1932 novel Brave New World, itself often paired with George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Spartan has trouble adapting to life in this peaceful setting, while most of Huxley's fellow officers especially Head Chief George Earle, find him brutish and uncivilized.

In the spring of 1868 Darwin got information on newts from St George Mivart, a brilliant anatomist and one of Huxley's protégés who had dropped law for zoology after hearing Owen lecture.

Many of the best known dystopias were inspired by reality: Aldous Huxley's " negative utopia " Brave New World ( 1932 ) and, alluding to the Soviet Union, Animal Farm ( 1945 ) and the Western world in Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) by George Orwell.

Social criticism can also be expressed in a fictional form, e. g., in a revolutionary novel like The Iron Heel by Jack London or in dystopian novels like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ) or George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) or Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ), children's books or films.

A fictional drug in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel, Brave New World in which the population voluntarily consume Soma to dispel any anxieties or negative emotion " One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments " and also in the 1962 novel, Island.

Di Filippo argues that precursors of ribofunk fiction include H. G. Wells ' The Island of Doctor Moreau ; Julian Huxley's The Tissue Culture King ; some of David H. Keller's stories, Damon Knight's Natural State and Other Stories ; Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth's Gravy Planet ; novels of T. J. Bass and Varley ; Greg Bear's Blood Music and Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix.

All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Huxley's mother died in 1908 when he was 14.

Stephen Runciman, who was at Eton with Blair, noted that he and his contemporaries appreciated Huxley's linguistic flair.

One such book is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which satirically describes a world in which gene therapy and human cloning have destroyed any sense of individuality.

" Another science fiction project associated with Scott is an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with Leonardo DiCaprio potentially involved.

The experience started in Huxley's study before the party made a seven block trip to The Owl Drug ( Rexall ) store, known as World's Biggest Drugstore, at the corner of Beverly and La Cienega Boulevards.

For one of his friends, Huxley's poor eyesight manifested in both a great desire to see and a strong interest in painting, which influenced the strong visual and artistic nature of his experience.

Thomas Mann, the author and friend of Huxley, believed the book demonstrated Huxley's escapism.

Huxley's ' aesthetic self-indulgence ' and indifference to humanity would lead to suffering or stupidity, and he concluded the book was irresponsible, if not quite immoral, to encourage young people to try the drug.

Psychiatric responses included those of William Sargant, the controversial British psychiatrist, who reviewed the book for The British Medical Journal and particularly focused on Huxley's reflections on schizophrenia.

Other medical researchers questioned the validity of Huxley's account.

While Joost A. M. Meerloo found Huxley's reactions " not necessarily the same as ... other people's experiences.

Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career.

In 1845, under Wharton Jones ' guidance, Huxley published his first scientific paper demonstrating the existence of a hitherto unrecognized layer in the inner sheath of hairs, a layer that has been known since as Huxley's layer.

She was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents ' friendship with writer Aldous Huxley's wife, Laura Huxley.

Ayn Rand's Anthem, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano.