Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

Aldous Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism.

By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time and respected as an important researcher into visual communication and sight-related theories as well.

Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, in 1894.

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic and controversialist (" Darwin's Bulldog ").

Following his education at Balliol, Huxley was financially indebted to his father and had to earn a living.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

The term clade was introduced in 1958 by Julian Huxley after having been coined by Lucien Cuénot in 1940, cladistic by Cain and Harrison in 1960, and cladist ( for an adherent of Hennig's school ) by Mayr in 1965.

The term was coined in 1958 by the biologist Julian Huxley.

Lyell was also a friend of Darwin's closest colleagues, Hooker and Huxley, but unlike them he struggled to square his religious beliefs with evolution.

The term was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in April 1860, and was used to describe evolutionary concepts in general, including earlier concepts such as Spencerism.

Many of the proponents of Darwinism at that time, including Huxley, had reservations about the significance of natural selection, and Darwin himself gave credence to what was later called Lamarckism.

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 ).

Blair was briefly taught French by Aldous Huxley.

Lorenz was also a friend and student of renowned biologist Sir Julian Huxley ( grandson of " Darwin's bulldog ", Thomas Henry Huxley ).

In the early 1960s the use of LSD and other hallucinogens was advocated by proponents of the new " consciousness expansion ", such as Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley and Arthur Koestler, their writings profoundly influenced the thinking of the new generation of youth.

This was not the only possible classification scheme: In the Hunterian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1863, Huxley grouped the vertebrates into mammals, sauroids, and ichthyoids ( the latter containing the fishes and amphibians ).

The International Humanist and Ethical Union was founded in 1952, when a gathering of world Humanists met under the leadership of Sir Julian Huxley.

In the early 1950s, when Huxley wrote his book, mescaline was still regarded as a research chemical rather than a drug and was listed in the Parke-Davis catalogue with no controls.

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.

Huxley, a boy who left school at ten, became one of the most knowledgeable men in Britain.

" The hippies were heirs to a long line of bohemians that includes William Blake, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Hesse, Arthur Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, utopian movements like the Rosicrucians and the Theosophists, and most directly the Beatniks.

In 1929, after finishing work on The Science of Life, Huxley visited East Africa to advise the Colonial Office on education in British East Africa ( for the most part Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika ).

Ford and his co-workers in ecological genetics were at least as important ; and Cyril Darlington, the chromosome expert, was a notable source of facts and ideas. An analysis of the ' authorities cited ' index of Evolution the modern synthesis shows indirectly those whom Huxley regarded as the most important contributors to the synthesis up to 1941 ( the book was published in 1942, and references go up to 1941 ).

* Huxley argued his case many times, even in his most important works.

Huxley was an outspoken critic of the most extreme eugenicism in the 1920s and 1930s ( the stimulus for which was the greater fertility of the ' feckless ' poor compared to the ' responsible ' prosperous classes ).

Aldous Huxley took the name of one of his most famous works, The Doors of Perception, from this work, which in turn also inspired American rock band The Doors ' name.

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.

Huxley that met every month and included some of the most prominent thinkers of the Victorian age ( three of whom would become presidents of the Royal Society ).

The most prominent member of this club was the anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley.

Even in Italy, Huxley and Darwin were awarded honorary medals and most of the Italian governing class was hostile to the papacy.

Goel was well read in Western and Eastern literature, and among his most favorite writers or works were Thomas Hardy, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Aldous Huxley, Plato, Tagore, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay, Vaishnava and Baul poets, the Kathamrita written by Mahendranath Gupta ( Sri M .) and Thomas Gray's poem " Elegy ".

One of the most famous events linked to the Association Meeting was an exchange between Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in 1860 ( see the 1860 Oxford evolution debate ).

Although it is often described as a " debate ", the exchange occurred after the presentation of a paper by Prof Draper of New York, on the intellectual development of Europe with relation to Darwin's theory ( one of a number of scientific papers presented during the week ) and the subsequent discussion involved a number of other participants ( although Wilberforce and Huxley were the most prominent ).

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.

Perhaps the most famous proponent of the Bates method was the British writer Aldous Huxley.

" The lecturer whose interests most closely reflected mine was Julian Huxley.

Even though Huxley was ... only at Oxford from 1919 to 1925, he was the most powerful voice in developing the selectionist attitude there ...

Some species are grown as ornamental plants in gardens ; the most popular species is C. gigantea, a perennial species from the Caucasus growing to 2 m tall, valued for its strong erect growth with dark green foliage and yellow flowers ( Huxley 1992 ).

One of the most important members of this group is a type of voltage-gated sodium channel that underlies action potentials — these are sometimes called Hodgkin-Huxley sodium channels because they were initially characterized by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley in their Nobel Prize-winning studies of the physiology of the action potential.