by Julian Huxley · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140034356
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«Memories» is Julian Huxley's memoir, published by Penguin in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Julian Huxley, British biologist and humanist, recounts in these memoirs his childhood, his education at Eton and Oxford, and his scientific career, including his time as director-general of UNESCO and encounters with major twentieth-century figures; the narrative reflects his advocacy of evolutionary humanism.
Published in 1972 by Penguin Books; the cover titles the work as «Memories I». A work framed within autobiography and the history of biology.
For readers interested in the history of science and the careers of twentieth-century British intellectuals.
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis. 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.
