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He was a brother of the writer Aldous Huxley, his father was Leonard Huxley, and his paternal grandfather was the biologist T. H. Huxley. He was also a friend and mentor of the biologist Konrad Lorenz.
Huxley was the first Director General of UNESCO and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund. He wrote popular science books, including Essays of a Biologist and Evolution: The Modern Synthesis . He was knighted in 1958Events January January 1 Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented January 4 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4 1957) January 8 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship January 18 Armed Lumbee Nat.
Huxley coined the terms " mentifact s", " socifact s" and " artifactAn artifact (also artefact is any object or process resulting from human activity. The specific meanings of the word are several: an artifact in archaeology an artifact of observation an artifact of fantasy a compression artifact resulting from lossy datas" to describe how cultural traits take on a life of their own, spanning over generations. This idea is related to memeticsMemetics is the scientific approach to evolutionary models of information transfer based on the concept of the meme . Richard Dawkins (1989) once coined a basic unit of human evolution, the meme. Dawkins continued Charles Darwin's genetic evolution to the.