About the Author

Julian Huxley (1894 - 1975) was a biologist who taught at Oxford University, King's College, London, and the Royal Institution. He was also the director general of UNESCO and the author of many books, including The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, Essays of a Biologist, Religion without Revelation, Evolution: the Modern Synthesis, and Toward a New Humanism, among other works. He was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and the brother of novelist Aldous Huxley.