The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution

by Alison Bashford

Book Overview

A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year

Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.

This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's Bulldog") and his grandson, the scientist, conservationist, and zoologist Julian Huxley. Between them, they communicated to the world the great modern story of the theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022672011X
• ISBN13: 9780226720111
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"