Huxley argued for human evolution from apes by illustrating many of the similarities and differences between humans and apes, and did so particularly in his 1863 book Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.

Human evolution became central to the debate and was strongly argued by Huxley who featured it in his popular " working-men's lectures ".

Modern commentators on the case, such as the author Aldous Huxley, have argued that the accusations began after Grandier refused to become the spiritual director of the convent, unaware that the Mother Superior, Sister Jeanne of the Angels, had become obsessed with him, having seen him from afar and heard of his sexual exploits.

In 1878, James gave a series of lectures at Johns Hopkins University entitled " The Senses and the Brain and their Relation to Thought " in which he argued, contra Thomas Henry Huxley, that consciousness is not epiphenomenal, but must have an evolutionary function, or it would not have been naturally selected in humans.

In the ensuing debate Joseph Hooker argued strongly for Darwin and Thomas Huxley established himself as " Darwin's bulldog " – the fiercest defender of evolutionary theory on the Victorian stage.

In 1870, Thomas Huxley argued that there were four basic racial categories ( Xanthocroic, Mongoloid, Australioid and Negroid ).

In February 1869 Huxley at the Geological Society argued that '" Biology takes her time from geology ... if the geological clock is wrong, all the naturalist will have to do is to modify his notions of the rapidity of change accordingly ".

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

In the case of the evaporation of water we are satisfied with the explanation given by the kinetic theory of gases and do not demand that to repeat a well-known jest of Huxley the disappearance of the " aquosity " be also taken into consideration.

Huxley in his book The Devils of Loudun ( 1952 ) and in the Ken Russell film version of the Huxley book ( 1971 ) alleged that the initial accusations against Grandier by the nuns of the convent of Loudun were part of a case of collective hysteria.

Reflecting on his stated motivations, Woodcock wrote that Huxley had realised the ways to enlightenment were many, and prayer and meditation were techniques among others.

Huxley was a friend and mentor of the biologists and Nobel laureates Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen, and taught and encouraged many others.

Huxley was one of many intellectuals at the time who believed that the lowest class in society was genetically inferior.

Wallace was also a keen entomologist, and he had read the same kind of books as Bates had, and as Darwin, Huxley and no doubt many others had.

The Strand became a newly fashionable address and many avant-garde writers and thinkers gathered here, among them Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and the scientist Thomas Henry Huxley.

Rather than merely lecturing, many leaders began to experiment with what Huxley called the non-verbal humanities: the education of the body, the senses, and the emotions.

Blumenbach's work was used by many biologists and comparative anatomists in the nineteenth century who were interested in the origin of races: Wells, Lawrence, Prichard, Huxley and William Flower are good examples of his influence on human biology.

Aside from many photographs of Gilman and his contemporaries, the papers include Gilman's correspondence with leading figures of the day, including Charles W. Eliot, Sidney Lanier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William McKinley, Basil Gildersleeve, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, George Bancroft, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Huxley, Andrew Carnegie, Horace Greeley, Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Henry Ward Beecher, William Osler, W. E. B DuBois, Booker T Washington and others.

Although many of Bates ' patients and followers of his methods have reported of successful results, ( most famously from author Aldous Huxley ), his methods have garnered much opposition from mainstream optometry.

Animals that form lasting pair bonds often have symmetrical displays that they make to each other: famous examples are the mutual presentation of reeds by Great Crested Grebes, studied by Julian Huxley, the triumph displays shown by many species of geese and penguins on their nest sites and the spectacular courtship displays by birds of paradise and manakins.

Huxley convincingly illustrated many of the similarities and differences between humans and apes in his 1863 book Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.

Island explores many of the themes and ideas that interested Huxley in the post-World War II decades, and were the subject of many of his nonfiction books of essays, including Brave New World Revisited, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy.

Huxley demonstrated that the skull is built up of cartilaginous pieces ; Gegenbaur showed that in the lowest ( gristly ) fishes, where hints of the original vertebrae might be most expected, the skull is an unsegmented gristly brain-box, and that in higher forms, the vertebral nature of the skull cannot be maintained, since many of the bones, notably those along the top of the skull, arise in the skin.

Bynner and Hunt had numerous parties at their house, hosting many notable writers, actors, and artists, which guests included Ansel Adams, Willa Cather, Igor Stravinsky, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Clara Bow, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Christopher Isherwood, Carl Van Vechten, Martha Graham, Georgia O ' Keeffe and Thornton Wilder.

Tens of thousands of screenplays have been written by L. A. city residents, and the movie business has attracted many authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, Tennessee Williams, Evelyn Waugh, and William Faulkner.

The attacks on his work by the Roman Catholic biologist St George Mivart in 1871 / 1872 had coincided with a severe aggravation of Darwin's illness, with mysterious symptoms ( including vomiting, sweating, sighing and weeping ); but the intervention of Thomas Henry Huxley with a savage review of Mivart's Genesis of Species ( 1871 ) and Darwin's continuing correspondence with James Crichton-Browne ( amounting to more than forty letters with many enclosures ) seemed to encourage a resolution of his symptoms as he brought his work on emotional expression to a conclusion.

Among many others, she worked closely with Carl Jung, Buckminster Fuller, and Aldous Huxley.

Doxiadis being aware of the unifying power of systems thinking and particularly of the biological and evolutionary reference models as used by many famous biologists-philosophers of his generation, especially Sir Julian Huxley ( 1887 – 1975 ), Theodosius Dobzhansky ( 1900 – 75 ), Dennis Gabor ( 1900 – 79 ), René Dubos ( 1901 – 82 ), George G. Simpson ( 1902 – 84 ), and Conrad Waddington ( 1905 – 75 ), used the biological model to describe the " Ekistic behavior " of Anthropos ( the five principles ) and the evolutionary model to explain the morphogenesis of human settlements ( the eleven forces, the hierarchical structure of human settlements, dynapolis, ecumenopolis ).

Like some other British scientists of the nineteenth century such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Huxley was brought up in a literate middle-class family which had fallen on hard times.

" At various times the text refers to " Sir Roderick Murchison, Professor ( Richard ) Owen, Professor ( Thomas Henry ) Huxley, ( and ) Mr. Darwin ", and thus they become explicitly part of the story.

The term was popularized in more recent times by Aldous Huxley in his 1945 book: The Perennial Philosophy.

The idea that even if the animal were conscious nothing would be added to the production of behavior, even in animals of the human type, was first voiced by La Mettrie ( 1745 ), and then by Cabanis ( 1802 ), and was further explicated by Hodgson ( 1870 ) and Huxley ( 1874 ).

Nonetheless, Huxley maintains that even quietistic contemplation has an ethical value, because it is concerned with negative virtues and acts to channel the transcendent into the world.

The Social Darwinists ' view is derived from Charles Darwin's interpretation of evolution by natural selection, which is explicitly competitive (" survival of the fittest "), Malthusian (" struggle for existence "), even gladiatorial (" red in tooth and claw "), and permeated by the Victorian laissez-faire ethos of Darwin and his disciples ( such as T. H. Huxley and Herbert Spencer ).

The idea that even if the animal were conscious nothing would be added to the production of behavior, even in animals of the human type, was first voiced by La Mettrie ( 1745 ), and then by Cabanis ( 1802 ), and was further explicated by Hodgson ( 1870 ) and Huxley ( 1874 ).

" This view that the Earth in some ways could be viewed as a superorganism was widely held in the early 19th century, and was supported even by such early biologists as Huxley ( 1825-1895 ).

Oscar convinces the Grouch Policeman and all the Grouches of Grouchland that, even though Grouches hate cooperation, just for once, they have to take a stand against Huxley from stealing any more of their stuff, and taking light to this problem, the Grouch Policeman releases the Sesame Street residents and aid them to go to Huxley's house to fight for their trash.

Huxley said that it died " of too much love "; Tennyson, " because after ten years of strenuous effort no one had succeeded in even defining metaphysics.

After Spartan and Huxley check prison records, they determine that Cocteau set up Phoenix's rehabilitation program to turn him into an even more dangerous criminal and assassin, with the goal of eliminating Friendly, and go to the ruins to meet with Friendly and warn him.

The general opinion today is that man is more closely related to apes than even Huxley thought.

In April the " Metaphysical Society ", a group of liberal churchmen of all denominations and even atheists, attempted to reach a consensus and Huxley coined a new label for his position – agnostic.

In the book they avoided saying that they believed the story but were careful to report it as though with an open mind, even when they recounted how a hair from the supposed mongoose was sent to Julian Huxley who then sent it to naturalist F. Martin Duncan who identified it as a dog hair.