Title
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 – 1895)
Description
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS Hon FRSE FLS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy. He is known as ‘Darwin's Bulldog’ for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Huxley was one of the small group who knew about Darwin's ideas before they were published. The first publication by Darwin of his ideas came when Wallace sent Darwin his famous paper on natural selection, which was presented by Lyell and Hooker to the Linnean Society in 1858. Huxley's famous response to the idea of natural selection was ‘How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!’
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Huxley was one of the small group who knew about Darwin's ideas before they were published. The first publication by Darwin of his ideas came when Wallace sent Darwin his famous paper on natural selection, which was presented by Lyell and Hooker to the Linnean Society in 1858. Huxley's famous response to the idea of natural selection was ‘How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!’
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