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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (June 22, 1887 - February 14, 1975) was a British biologist and author, known for his popularizations of science in books and lectures..
Huxley was part of a distinguished family. His brother was the writer Aldous Huxley; his father was writer and editor Leonard Huxley; and his paternal grandfather was biologist T. H. Huxley, famous as a colleague and supporter of Charles Darwin.
He was also a friend and mentor of the biologist Konrad Lorenz.
Huxley was the first Director General of UNESCO and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund. He wrote popular science books, including Essays of a Biologist and . He was knighted in 1958. In later life, he became known to an even wider audience through television and radio appearances. He was a regular panellist on one of the BBC's first quiz shows, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?
Huxley coined the terms "mentifacts", "socifacts" and "artifacts" to describe how cultural traits take on a life of their own, spanning over generations. This idea is related to memetics.
Works
- Essays of a Biologist (1923)
- Animal Biology (with J. B. S. Haldane, 1927)
- Religion Without Revelation (1927, revised 1957)
- The Tissue-Culture King (1927)
- The Science of Life (with H G Wells - 1931)
- Scientific Research and Social Needs (1934)
- Thomas Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake (1935)
- We Europeans (with A. C. Haddon, 1936)
- The Living Thoughts of Darwin (1939)
- The New Systematics (1940)
- Evolution: the Modern Synthesis (1942)
- Evolutionary Ethics (1943)
- Touchstone for Ethics (1947)
- Man in the Modern World (1947)
- Heredity, East and West (1949)
- Biological Aspects of Cancer (1957)
- Towards a New Humanism (1957)
- New Bottles for New Wine (1958)
- The Humanist Frame (1962) elaborated to Essays of a Humanist (1964)
- From an Antique Land (1966)
- The Courtship Habits of the Great Grebe (1968)
- Memories (2 vol., 1971 and 1974)
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