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born: 1887-06-22
died: 1975-02-14
location: "London, England; Paris, France"
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with: "[[Aldous Huxley]]"
role: "brother"
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- type: relative_of
with: "[[Thomas Henry Huxley]]"
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Julian Sorell Huxley (June 22, 1887 to February 14, 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, science popularizer, and eugenicist who coined the modern usage of "[[Transhumanism|transhumanism]]" in 1957. He was the grandson of the Darwinian biologist Thomas Henry Huxley and the elder brother of the novelist [[Aldous Huxley]]. He was an architect of the "modern synthesis" of Darwinian selection and Mendelian genetics, the first Director-General of [[UNESCO]] from 1946 to 1948, a cofounder of the [[World Wildlife Fund]] in 1961, and president of the British [[Eugenics|Eugenics]] Society from 1959 to 1962. He was knighted in 1958.[^1][^2]