Astral Codex Ten

Andrew Huxley

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Andrew Huxley

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Andrew Huxley is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 09, 2021 and November 18, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “Their half-brother Andrew Huxley won the Nobel Prize in Medicine”; “the Huxley brothers (Aldous, Julian, and Andrew)“. It most often appears alongside Aldous Huxley, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: November 09, 2021
  • Last seen: November 18, 2021

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Secrets Of The Great Families
November 09, 2021 · Original source
Aldous Huxley was an author most famous for Brave New World, though his other work is also great and underappreciated. His brother Julian Huxley founded UNESCO and the World Wildlife Fund and coined the terms "ethnic group", "cline", and "transhumanism". Their half-brother Andrew Huxley won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering how nerves work. Their grandfather was Thomas Huxley, one of the first and greatest advocates of evolution, and President of the Royal Society.
Inline links: Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, Andrew Huxley, Thomas Huxley
Highlights From The Comments On Great Families
November 18, 2021 · Original source
Another way of thinking about this is: the Huxley brothers (Aldous, Julian, and Andrew) are such a great example that I probably would have included them even if they’d had no other interesting relatives, so they’re hardly cherry-picked. But in fact, there are two more famous Huxleys: Thomas Huxley (two generations away) and Matthew Arnold (also two generations away). Suppose that there are about 100 people who are at most two generations away from Aldous on the Huxley family tree. Should we expect by chance that they include two famous geniuses? I think that’s a lot even for upper-class Victorian Britain.