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The Post-Descent Years: Sexual Selection in Crisis, Female Choice at Large
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Evelleen Richards
Published: 27 April 2017
... socialist world in which free and informed female choice would guide the future direction of humanity. Thomas Henry Huxley’s reaction to all this is analysed through the content and context of his famous Romanes lecture. It was the aging, ailing Huxley who determined to rein in the Darwinian...
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Published: 24 May 2017
... Theodor Ernst von Chambers Robert evolution Geoffroy Saint Hilaire Étienne Kölliker Albert von reductionism alternation of generations levels of individuality biological hierarchy life cycles Johannes Japetus Steenstrup Thomas Henry Huxley Richard Owen Wilhelm Hofmeister In the 1840s...
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The Problems of Popularization
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Gowan Dawson
Published: 21 April 2016
... Proctor Proctor Richard popularizers of science Thomas Henry Huxley scientific naturalism lectures journalism specialism cultural authority museums audiences By the end of February 1857 Richard Owen’s guest lectures on extinct mammals at the Government School of Mines were proving so popular...
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Unfortunate Allies
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Gowan Dawson
Published: 21 April 2016
... Anthropological Review Burton Richard Darwinism Pike Luke Owen Punch Swinburne Algernon Charles X Club English and Their Origin The Pike Sera Shriar Efram British and Foreign Medico Chirurgical Review Descent of Man The Darwin Robert Knox Burke and Hare Edinburgh Thomas Henry Huxley Charles Carter...
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The Uniformity of Natural Laws
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Matthew Stanley
Published: 24 November 2014
... miracles Tyndall John in America warfare of science and religion Essays and Reviews Ewart William Kingsley Charles prayer gauge debate James Clerk Maxwell Thomas Henry Huxley uniformity of nature natural laws scientific naturalism design argument evangelical science history of physics age...
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The Limits of Science
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Matthew Stanley
Published: 24 November 2014
... British Association for the Advancement of Science BAAS Boole George Cambridge Common Sense philosophy Whewell William evangelicalism at Cambridge beginning of the universe thermodynamics Clifford William Kingdon James Clerk Maxwell Thomas Henry Huxley limits of science scientific models ether...
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Natural History Periodicals and Changing Conceptions of the Naturalist Community, 1828–65
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Geoffrey Belknap
Published: 02 March 2020
... Magazine of Natural History, was adapted by Richard Taylor and William Francis’s Annals and Magazine of Natural History, and ended with Thomas Henry Huxley’s Natural History Review. For Loudon, a natural history periodical was a communal space where the work of the periodical was “supported...
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Religious Lives
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Matthew Stanley
Published: 24 November 2014
... of science and religion evolution Lubbock John Ewart William Frankland Edward Hirst Thomas Spottiswoode William Knowles James Lyell Charles Metaphysical Society Mivart St George Jackson and Huxley James Clerk Maxwell Thomas Henry Huxley Anglicanism Evangelicalism Agnosticism natural theology...
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Correlation under Siege
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Gowan Dawson
Published: 21 April 2016
...This chapter considers how Thomas Henry Huxley, beginning in the mid-1850s during the Crimean War, impugned the abilities of Cuvier, asserting that the ostensibly infallible law of physiological correlation was in reality based on prosaic empirical observations of customary correspondences. Huxley...
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Prophecies of the Past
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Gowan Dawson
Published: 21 April 2016
... Arthur Pearson’s Magazine Carnegie Andrew Daily Mail dinosaur diplodocus First World War 1914– spectacle science as Tate Trudi Times London Geological Magazine Hay Oliver Tornier Gustav wars “His Last Bow” Doyle detective fiction Sherlock Holmes Thomas Henry Huxley popularization...
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“The Great O. versus the Jermyn St. Pet”: Huxley, Falconer, and Owen on Paleontological Method
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Gowan Dawson
Published: 28 April 2014
...This chapter examines the paleontological dispute from 1856 to 1857 between Thomas Henry Huxley, Hugh Falconer, and Richard Owen, and its role in forging a sense of solidarity and community amongst the nascent scientific naturalists. In this dispute Huxley criticized Georges Cuvier's method...
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Published: 01 December 2007
...This chapter examines the works of the scientific practitioners Thomas Henry Huxley and Robert Ball, who became active popularizers of science only after the early 1870s, analyses the shift in Huxley's views during the late 1860s, and describes the three projects he became involved in during...
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Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science
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Matthew Stanley
Published online: 21 May 2015
Published in print: 24 November 2014
... major scientific figures of the century: James Clerk Maxwell, a devout Christian physicist, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the iconoclast biologist who coined the word agnostic. Both were deeply engaged in the methodological, institutional, and political issues that were crucial to the theistic-naturalistic...
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Published: 20 July 2018
... morality and morality Mutual Aid Kropotkin communities competition Humbolt Alexander von mutualism natural selection Allee Warder Clyde communes Emerson Alfred superorganisms Wheeler Morton cooperation Wade Michael J Wilson David Sloan Wynne Edwards V C Peter Kropotkin Thomas Henry Huxley...
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Published: 24 November 2014
... natural theology valence values agnosticism James Clerk Maxwell Thomas Henry Huxley F.D. Maurice Working Men’s College science education Christian socialism moral value of science One of the Supreme Court decisions that has shaped the presence of creationism in the American classroom...
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Intellectual Freedom
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Matthew Stanley
Published: 24 November 2014
... for the Advancement of Science BAAS Forbes Edward Butler Bishop James Clerk Maxwell Thomas Henry Huxley intellectual freedom sectarianism dogma science education evangelicalism ecumenicism John Tyndall Belfast Address The narrative presented by the scientific naturalists was one of liberation. Only...
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Free Will and Natural Laws
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Matthew Stanley
Published: 24 November 2014
... James Clerk Maxwell Thomas Henry Huxley William Benjamin Carpenter free will volition automata determinism Maxwell’s demon The question was whether you could decide what to have for dinner. Did you have the freedom to choose? Victorian society’s base assumption was that the soul and will could...
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How the Naturalists “Won”
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Matthew Stanley
Published: 24 November 2014
... and religion Clifford William Kingdon British Association for the Advancement of Science BAAS Royal Society of London Cavendish Laboratory James Clerk Maxwell Thomas Henry Huxley scientific naturalism science education British education Michael Faraday John Tyndall Secularization John Dewey Huxley...