Thomas Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist, known as Darwin's Bulldog for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career. Wilberforce was coached by Richard Owen, against whom Huxley also debated on whether man was closely related to apes. Huxley was slow to accept some of Dar... more

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  • May 4, 1825

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  • Jun 29, 1895 (age 70 years)

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  • Darwin's Bulldog,
  • Thomas Henry Huxley,
  • T. H Huxley
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