Charles Darwin. Thomas Henry Huxley. Autobiographies

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

In nineteenth century Great Britain, Thomas Henry Huxley [3] proposed connections between the development of organisms and their evolutionary histories, critiqued previously held concepts of homology, and promoted Charles Darwin?s theory of evolution [4]. Many called him Darwin?s Bulldog. Huxley helped professionalize and redefine British science. He wrote about philosophy, religion, and social...

Opinion Darwin and Huxley revisited: the origin of allometry

The Huxley whose name appears in the title of this article is not Thomas (Darwin’s ‘Bulldog’), but his grandson Julian, the author of Problems of Relative Growth [1], brother of the novelist Aldous (Brave New World) and half-brother of the biophysicist Andrew (the Hodgkin-Huxley equations). In 1924, Julian began studying the relative size of various organs and found many examples of what he cal...

Inclusive fitness theory from Darwin to Hamilton.

ONE of the central dogmas of modern behavioral ecology is that blood kinship plays a critical role in understanding the evolution of social behavior, particularly of costly social behavior such as altruism and cooperation. But it was not always so, and what I would like to do in this Perspectives is provide some historical context that led up to William Hamilton’s seminal work developing inclus...

Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 1 through 19, 1865–1895

Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 163 through 185, 1865–1895