The historical classification of Diprotodon consisted of eight species ( Diprotodon optatum Owen, 1838 ; Diprotodon australis Owen, 1844 ; D. annextans McCoy, 1861 ; D. minor Huxley, 1862 ; D. longiceps McCoy 1865 ; D. loderi Krefft, 1873a ; D. bennettii Krefft, 1873b ( nec D. bennettii Owen, 1877 ); and D. bennettii Owen, 1877 ( nec D. bennettii Krefft, 1873b ); based on size or slight morphological differences of single specimens collected from isolated geographic regions.

John Stuart Mill and Julian Huxley are just some of the historical luminaries who have written on the concept.

The early historical roots of the field can be traced to the work of people such as Louis Lapicque, Hodgkin & Huxley, Hubel & Wiesel, and David Marr, to name but a few.

As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.

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.

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

That ability would seem to be at odds with early epiphenomenalism, which according to Huxley is the broad claim that consciousness is “ completely without any power … as the steam-whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon its machinery ”.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is often compared to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ; both are powerful dystopian novels warning of a future world where the state machine exerts complete control over social life.

The Doors of Perception is a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley detailing his experiences when taking mescaline.

In summary, Huxley writes that the ability to think straight is not reduced while under the influence of mescaline, visual impressions are intensified, and the human experimenter will see no reason for action because the experience is so fascinating.

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.

Huxley speculates that schizophrenia is the inability to escape from this reality into the world of common sense and thus help would be essential.

Ideally, self-transcendence would be found in religion, but Huxley feels that it is unlikely that this will ever happen.

Huxley concludes that mescaline is not enlightenment or the Beatific Vision, but a ' gratuitous grace ' ( a term taken from St Thomas Aquinas ’ Summa Theologica ).

For the Scottish poet, Edwin Muir “ Mr. Huxley ’ s experiment is extraordinary, and is beautifully described ”.

The personality is dissipated into the world, for Huxley on mescaline and people in a manic state, which is similar to the experience of nature mystics.

Later Huxley responded to Zaehner in an article published in 1961: " For most of those to whom the experiences have been vouchsafed, their value is self-evident.

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 ).

* January 30 – Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.

* Thomas Henry Huxley discovers what he thinks is primordial matter and names it bathybius haecklii ( he admits his mistake in 1871 ).

Interpreted as an attempt to defend his original decision, Owen's point on brain size was answered by Huxley in Man's Place ( excerpt above ), and repeated when he wrote a section comparing ape and human brains for the second edition of Darwin's Descent of Man:

Other early ethologists, such as Oskar Heinroth and Julian Huxley, instead concentrated on behaviours that can be called instinctive, or natural, in that they occur in all members of a species under specified circumstances.

Zaehner criticises what he sees as Huxley ’ s apparent call for all religious people to use drugs ( including alcohol ) as part of their practices.

Initiated by Thomas Henry Huxley, the group consisted of such important scientists as Joseph Dalton Hooker, Herbert Spencer, and John Tyndall, along with another five scientists and mathematicians ; these scientists were all avid supporters of Darwin ’ s theory of evolution as common descent, a theory which, during the latter-half of the 19th century, received a great deal of criticism among more conservative groups of scientists.

Anton de Bary invented the concept of symbiosis ; several Russian biologists promoted the idea ; Edwin Wilson mentioned it in his text The Cell ; as did Ivan Emmanuel Wallin in his Symbionticism and the origin of species ; and there was a brief mention by Julian Huxley in 1930 ; all in vain because sufficient evidence was lacking.

Since Huxley had taken a half-salary cut at the start of the war, and no salary at all whilst he was in America, the Council's action was widely read as a personal attack on Huxley.

Huxley wrote that " There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.

The voltages and currents of the action potential in all of its phases were modeled accurately by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley in 1952, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963.

Aldous Huxley dismissed her performance in Home and Beauty, writing " she is too impassive, too statuesque, playing all the time as if she were Galatea, newly unpetrified and still unused to the ways of the living world.

* Crome Yellow ( 1921 ), Antic Hay ( 1923 ) and Those Barren Leaves ( 1925 ) by Aldous Huxley are all satires of contemporary events.

First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880, it is slightly wider than the earlier taxon Marsupialia, ( Illiger, 1811 ); it contains the extant mammals with abdominal pouches ( most female marsupials ) as well as all animals more closely related to them than to placental animals like armadillos and humans.

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.

Thomas Henry Huxley, Augustus Lane Fox, Edward Tylor, Henry Christy, John Lubbock, and Augustus Wollaston Franks all figured prominently in the society's affairs after 1860.

Referring to what Huxley had said two days before, about after all its not signifying to him whether he was descended from a Gorilla or not, the Bp.

Ever since 1857 when Richard Owen presented ( to the Linnean Society ) his view that man was marked off from all other mammals by possessing features of the brain peculiar to the genus Homo, Huxley had been on his trail.

In his 1883 inaugural address to the International Fisheries Exhibition in London, Thomas Huxley asserted that overfishing or " permanent exhaustion " was scientifically impossible, and stated that probably " all the great sea fisheries are inexhaustible ".

He has also voiced all the characters in the children's stop-motion animated series Huxley Pig and narrated an episode of Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.

:: Edmund Gosse ; J. M. Barrie ; Henry James ; George Moore ; T. E. Lawrence ; Aldous Huxley ( all letters );

In 1870 he became Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy in succession to Huxley and commenced a series of lectures that ran for fourteen years, all on aspects of the Mammalia.

In 2003, Guy McKnight, Tom Diamantopoulo and former member Andy Huxley all became Buddhists after giving up drugs.

Bathybius haeckelii was a substance that British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley discovered and initially believed to be a form of primordial matter, a source of all organic life.

Huxley states that while these states of mind are biologically useless, they are nonetheless spiritually significant, and furthermore, are the singular ' regions ' of the mind from which all religions are derived.

You say nothing about yourself, so I trust you are well and hearty, and all your belongings flourishing .– Ever yours faithfully, T. H. Huxley.

Henrietta Huxley brought their three infants to Down in March 1861 where Emma helped to console her, while Huxley continued with his working-men's lectures at the Royal School of Mines, writing that " My working men stick with me wonderfully, the house fuller than ever, By next Friday evening they will all be convinced that they are monkeys.