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Science and Culture and Other Essays - cover

Science and Culture and Other Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley

Publisher: Good Press

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This insightful work presents the collected essays of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was a renowned English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He was popularly known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for supporting Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. In addition, Huxley is famous for coining the term "agnosticism" and elaborated on it to state the nature of claims regarding what is knowable and what is not. This collection of his addresses, lectures, and essays is a must-read for anyone curious about evolution theory and biology.
Contents include:
Science and Culture
Universities: Actual and Ideal
Technical Education
Elementary Instruction in Physiology
Joseph Priestley
On the Method of Zadig
On the Border Territory Between the Animal and the Vegetable Kingdoms
On Certain Errors Respecting the Structure of the Heart Attributed to Aristotle
On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata, and Its History
On Sensation and the Unity of Structure of the Sensiferous Organs
Evolution in Biology
The Coming of Age of "the Origin of Species"
The Connection of the Biological Sciences With Medicine
Available since: 11/27/2019.
Print length: 243 pages.

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