160 years after Darwin ‘stirred up the mud’, the ‘controversy’ over evolution by means of natural selection was settled long ago, as far as the scientific community is concerned.
Newsletter No. 7: Stirring up the mud
thomas henry huxley
Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
19-Apr-1882: The death of a hero
After decades of mysterious ailments, and a short, final illness, Charles Darwin died at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of Wednesday 19th April 1882, at Down House, Downe, in Kent.
Are you calling Neanderthal Man an idiot?
Thomas Henry Huxley on Neanderthal Man.
Young Huxley
A Daguerreotype of Thomas Henry Huxley taken in 1846.