Despite being a brilliant scientist,
Julian Huxley
is much less well known than his brother
Aldous
.
A biologist, humanist and writer, Julian was a staunch Darwinian who worked on synthesizing the theories of natural selection with the Mendelian ones of heredity.
He was the first director general of Unesco and a great promoter of the popularization of science.
And it is to the illustrious Julian Huxely that we owe the term
transhumanism
, coined in the 1950s, to express
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