Chimps and Bulldogs
Stefan Collini: The Huxley Inheritance, 8 September 2022
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
by Alison Bashford.
Allen Lane, 529 pp., £30, September 2022,978 0 241 43432 1 Show More
by Alison Bashford.
Allen Lane, 529 pp., £30, September 2022,
“... Julian’s grandfather, and this appropriately biological connection provides the thread on which Alison Bashford has strung her rich account of evolutionary thinking between the early 19th and late 20th centuries (Huxley the First was born in 1825, Huxley the Second died in 1975). Monkey business was the main family enterprise, but both Huxleys tended ... ”
