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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Richard Dawkins, Thomas Henry Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, James Lovelock, Rosalind Franklin, Julian Huxley, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Brian J. Ford, Colin Skinner, C. D. Darlington, John Kendrew, Miriam Rothschild, St. George Jackson Mivart, Charles Sutherland Elton, Frederick Wollaston Hutton, Leslie Barnett, Robert Bakewell, Geoffrey Frank Grant, Reginald Punnett, Tim Hunt, John Jenner Weir, George Busk, Ernest William Lyons Holt, Juda Hirsch Quastel, Keith Campbell, A.E. Walsby, Cyril Bibby, Aubrey Manning, Donald Broom, Francis Darwin, V. C. Wynne-Edwards, Paul H. Harvey, Jeremy Marchant Forde, Ian Newton, Robert B Mellor, Colin Pittendrigh, Patrick Bateson, Douglas Spalding, Hugh Huxley, R. J. Berry, Charles Edward Beevor, William Bate Hardy, Michael Tweedie, Margaret Bastock, Daniel Mills, Mike Bate, Margaret Stanley, Harry Godwin, David Harper, Marian Stamp Dawkins, Roland Trimen, Henry Charlton Bastian, Michael Abercrombie. Excerpt: Thomas Henry Huxley PC PRS (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. Huxley had been planning to leave Oxford on the previous day, but, after an encounter with Robert Chambers, the author of Vestiges, he changed his mind and decided to join the debate. Wilberforce was coached by Richard Owen, against whom Huxley also debated whether humans were closely related to apes. Huxley was slow to accept some of Darwin's ideas, such as gradualism, and was undecided about natural selection, but despite this he was wholehearted in his public support of Darwin. He was instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain, and fought against the more extreme versio...
