Huxley may refer to:
People
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Huxley (surname) Huxley is an English language, English surname, originally given to people from Huxley, Cheshire. Notable people with the surname include:
*The British Huxley family:
**Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), British biologist, supporter of Charles D ...
* The British
Huxley family
The Huxley family is an England, English family; several of its members have excelled in science, medicine, arts and literature. The family also includes members who occupied senior positions in the public service of the United Kingdom.
The patr ...
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
The stor ...
(1825–1895), British biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog"
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley ( ; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction novel, non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the ...
(1894–1963), British writer, author of ''Brave New World'', grandson of Thomas Huxley
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Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and Internationalism (politics), internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentiet ...
(1887–1975), British biologist, brother of Aldous Huxley
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Andrew Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (22 November 191730 May 2012) was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, ...
(1917–2012), British biologist, brother of Aldous Huxley
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Anthony Huxley
Anthony Julian Huxley (2 December 1920 – 26 December 1992) was a British botanist and writer. An elected council member of the Royal Horticultural Society, he became its vice president in 1991. He edited '' Amateur Gardening'' from 1967 to 19 ...
(1920–1992), British botanist, son of Julian Huxley
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Francis Huxley
Francis John Heathorn Huxley (28 August 1923 – 29 October 2016) was a British zoologist, anthropologist and author. With a short professional career at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, he is most well known for his several anthropological ex ...
(1923–2016), British botanist, anthropologist and author, son of Julian Huxley
Geography
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Huxley, Alberta
Huxley is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Kneehill County. It is located approximately northeast of Calgary. The first school was built in 1907 and named Ashcroft for John Courtland Ash, the first rancher in the area, predating the ...
, Canada
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Huxley, Cheshire
Huxley is a small rural village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hargrave and Huxley, in the Cheshire West and Chester district, and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. In 2001 the parish had a population of 220, increasing t ...
, England
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Huxley, Iowa
Huxley is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States. The population was 4,244 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a part of the larger Ames-Boone, Iowa Combined Statistical Ar ...
, United States
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Huxley, Texas
Huxley is a city in Shelby County, Texas, United States. The population was 361 at the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.3 km2), of which 2.0 sq ...
, United States
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Huxley River, New Zealand
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Mount Huxley (disambiguation)
Education
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Huxley College of the Environment, a college of Western Washington University
Other
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Huxley (lunar crater)
Huxley is a tiny lunar impact crater located in eastern inlet of Mare Imbrium, just to the north of the Montes Apenninus. It was named after British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley. To the southeast in this range is Mons Ampère. This crater was pr ...
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Huxley (Martian crater)
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''Huxley'' (video game), an MMOFPS by Webzen Games Inc.
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Huxley Pig
''Huxley Pig'' is a British stop motion animated children's television series based on a series of picture books authored by Rodney Peppé.
The series was produced by FilmFair for Central TV, with narration by Martin Jarvis. 26 episodes a ...
'', an animated television series
* Huxley, the third generation of 3D printers from the
RepRap Project
RepRap (a contraction of ''replicating rapid prototyper'') is a project to develop low-cost 3D printers that can print most of their own components. As open designs, all of the designs produced by the project are released under a free software l ...
* Huxley, the main antagonist in ''
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
''The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland'' (or simply ''Elmo in Grouchland'') is a 1999 American musical adventure comedy film directed by Gary Halvorson (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Mitchell Kriegman and Joe ...
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See also
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Huxley Stakes, a horse race run at Chester, England
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