Pavlovian conditioning was a major theme in Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, Brave New World, and also to a large degree in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.

In the 20th century, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ) was the first major fictional work to anticipate the possible social consequences of reproductive technology.

The Kniphofia | Red Hot Poker flowers in Huxley's garden were " so passionately alive that they seemed to be standing on the very brink of utterance ".

In Aldous Huxley's " Crome Yellow " Anne Wimbush is referred to as " the slim Hamadryad whose movements were like the swaying of a young tree in the wind.

Photographs and measurements ( some as specified by Thomas Huxley's global ethnographic project, see Godby 1996 ) were also taken of all their informants in accordance with the norms of scientific research of the time in those fields.

Huxley's book is not strong in palaeontology, which illustrates perfectly why Simpson's later works were such an important contribution.

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.

Hodgkin and Huxley's findings led the pair to hypothesize the existence of ion channels, which were isolated only decades later.

:" As to ' natural selection ', I accepted it completely and in fact my doubts & difficulties were first excited by attending Prof. Huxley's lectures at the School of Mines.

Hodgkin and Huxley's findings led them to hypothesize ion channels, which were confirmed only decades later.

The discovery of the Neanderthal in Germany, Thomas Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature, and Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man were all important to early paleoanthropological research.

While all the accounts of the event suggest that the supporters of Darwinism were the most persuasive, it seems likely that the exact nature of the debate was made more sensational in the reports of Huxley's supporters to encourage further support for Darwin's theories.

In the introduction to his book Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, than by Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, where they were oppressed by state control.

These publications were instrumental in Huxley's early election to the Royal Society ( FRS ) at the age of 25.

The ideas of " natural selection " and " survival of the fittest " were introduced to Chinese readers through Huxley's work.

Huxley's lectures were drawing huge crowds.

In the UK reviewers admired the comprehensiveness of Huxley's survey, but questioned his other-worldliness and were hostile to his belief in the paranormal.

Huxley's friend William Flower gave a public dissection to show that the same structures ( the posterior horn of the lateral ventricle and the hippocampus minor ) were indeed present in apes.

As he says, Huxley's ideas on this topic were summed up in January 1861 in the first issue ( new series ) of his own journal, the Natural History Review: " the most violent scientific paper he had ever composed ".

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.

The characters of Loerke in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love and Gombauld in Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow were based on him.

The internal root sheath is composed of three layers, Henle's layer, Huxley's layer, and an internal cuticle that is continuous with the outermost layer of the hair fiber.

* Huxley's first ' trial run ' was the treatment of evolution in the Science of Life ( 1929 – 30 ), and in 1936 he published a long and significant paper for the British Association.

" Quoted in 1900 in Leonard Huxley's The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley.

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

In 1892 Thomas Henry Huxley's five-year-old grandson Julian saw this engraving and wrote his grandfather a letter asking:

Written partly in response to Social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley's Nineteenth Century essay, " The Struggle for Existence ", Kropotkin's book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions in Siberia to illustrate the phenomenon of cooperation.

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.

He also edited Thomas Huxley's On the Reception of the Origin of Species ( 1887 ).

The hall was crowded to hear Bishop Samuel Wilberforce's views on Charles Darwin's recent publication of On the Origin of Species, and the occasion was a historically significant part of the reaction to Darwin's theory due to reports of Thomas Henry Huxley's response to Wilberforce.

During this time, he read Thomas Henry Huxley's 1877 work Physiography: An Introduction to the Study of Nature — a gift from his brother James, and a work that would prove influential in MacKaye's future regional planning.

He monitored the debate closely, cheering on Thomas Henry Huxley's battles with Richard Owen to remove clerical domination of the scientific establishment.

He is celebrated for his translations, including Thomas Huxley's Evolution and Ethics, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty and Herbert Spencer's Study of Sociology.

The Golden Fleece prompted comparison by international critics to James Joyce ’ s Ulysses and its narrative patterns of classical myths, to Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and its long family history and evolution of pre-war society, and to Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point and its inner tensions created through a maze of conflicting perspectives ; yet The Golden Fleece was also hailed as unique.

In the dystopian future world of Aldus Huxley's " Brave New World ", in which Christianity was displaced by cult centered on Henry Ford, the paper is mentioned as continuing publication under the name " The Fordian Science Monitor ".

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.

* Henry Foster, a character from Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World

The Antiquity of Man ( published in early February 1863, just before Huxley's Man's place in nature ) drew these comments from Darwin to Huxley:

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.

* The Crows of Pearblossom authored by Aldous Huxley: A children's story using crows ( birds ) to tell a story about Huxley's admiration of a particular pharmacist and his wife ( not surnamed Crow ) who worked and lived in Palmdale, not Pearblossom.

On Huxley's death at 87 in 1975, John Owen ( Director of National Parks for Tanganyika ) wrote " Julian Huxley was one of the world's great men ... he played a seminal role in wild life conservation in Africa in the early days ... in the far-reaching influence he exerted the international community ".

* Point Counter Point ( 1928 ) by Aldous Huxley includes easily detected portraits of Huxley's friends D. H. Lawrence and John Middleton Murry.

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.

Collier married two of Huxley's daughters and was " on terms of intimate friendship " with his son, the writer Leonard Huxley.

Groucho plays Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley College, and Zeppo is his son Frank, who convinces his father to recruit professional football players to help Huxley's team.

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.

In 1937 he emigrated to the United States, accompanied by Aldous Huxley, Huxley's wife Maria, and their son Matthew Huxley, to give some lectures at Duke University.

In response to what Huxley took as a jibe from Wilberforce as to whether it was on Huxley's grandfather's or grandmother's side that he was descended from an ape, Huxley made a reply which he later recalled as being that " asked would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means and influence and yet who employs these faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape ".

With Huxley's assistance he updated the Descent on ape-brain inheritance, which Huxley thought " pounds the enemy into a jelly ... though none but anatomists " would know it.