Thomas Henry Huxley

Collected Essays, Volume 2, Darwiniana Thomas Henry Huxley

This book contains the eleven essays by Huxley on evolution. Huxley was known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', so called because he was a great advocate of Darwin's evolution theory. He was also made famous as a result of his debate with Samuel Wilberforce in Oxford on 1860, a debate caused wider acceptance of the theory of evolution. This book comes complete with a preface by Huxley and some black and white drawings. The essays included are as follows: The Darwinian Hypothesis [1859] The Origin of Species [1860] Criticisms on "The Origin of Species" [1864] The Genealogy of Animals [1869] Mr. Darwin's Critics [1871] Evolution in Biology [1878] The Coming of Age of "The Origin of Species" [1880] Charles Darwin [1882] The Darwin Memorial [1885] Obituary [1888] Six Lectures to Working Men "On Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature" [1863]