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“... 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 ...”

“... science and medicine, and the stances taken on these matters by law, religion and government. Alison Bashford is an Australian historian whose previous books have included a close study of Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population and a remarkable biography of the Huxley family, but here she has produced something altogether surprising and ...”