What is Julian Huxley?
[[File:Hux-Oxon-72.jpg|thumb|right|200px|<center>Julian Huxley as Fellow<br />of New College, Oxford 1922</center>]] [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]] '''Julian Sorell Huxley''' [[FRS]] (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary [[biologist]], [[humanist]] and internationalist. He was born in [[London]], and died there. He was a proponent of [[natural selection]], and a leading figure in the [[modern evolutionary synthesis]]. He was Secretary of the [[Zoological Society of London]] (1935–1942), the first Director of [[UNESCO]], and a founding member of the [[World Wildlife Fund]]. Huxley came from the distinguished Huxley family. His brother was the writer [[Aldous Huxley]], and his half-brother, a fellow biologist and Nobel laureate, [[Andrew Huxley]]; and his paternal grandfather was [[Thomas Henry Huxley]], a friend and supporter of [[Charles Darwin]] and proponent of evolution. Huxley was well known for his presentation of science in books and articles, and on radio and television. He was awarded UNESCO's ''Kalinga Prize'' for the popularisation of science in 1953, the ''Darwin Medal'' of the [[Royal Society]] in 1956, and the ''Darwin-Wallace medal'' of the [[Linnean Society]] in 1958. He was also [[knighted]] in that same year, 1958, a hundred years after Charles Darwin and [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] announced the theory of evolution by natural selection. In 1959 he received a Special Award of the Lasker Foundation in the category Planned Parenthood – World [[Population]]. Huxley was a prominent member of the British [[Eugenics]] Society. == Early work == [[File:GreatCrestedGrebes.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Great Crested Grebes]] His particular interest was bird behaviour, especially the courtship of water birds. His observations on the [[ethology]] of the [[Great Crested Grebe]], published in 1914, was a landmark in avian [[field research]]. His invention of vivid labels for the rituals (such as 'penguin dance', 'plesiosaurus race' etc.) made the ideas memorable and interesting to the general read