Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley
Julian Huxley ; ( academic);
Born	22 June 1887
Died	14 February 1975 (Age 87)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	• Eton College; • Balliol College (Oxford)
Siblings	Aldous Huxley
Founder of	Technocracy, World Wildlife Fund
Member of	Galton Institute, The Focus Group
Relatives	• Thomas Henry Huxley; • Thomas Arnold; • Matthew Arnold
	Director-General of the UNESCO
In office
	1946 - 1948
Dates unknown
	British Eugenics Society/President
In office
	1952 - 1962

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959-1962), and the first President of the British Humanist Association.

A Quote by Julian Huxley

Page	Quote	Date
Transhumanism	“unless [civilised societies] invent and enforce adequate measures for regulating human reproduction, for controlling the quantity of population, and at least preventing the deterioration of quality of racial stock, they are doomed to decay”	1926

Event	Start	End	Description
The Biological Future of Man	1962	1962	Conference discussing "Do people have the right to have children at all?"

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