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  • date to 1588 (Gould 1977). In 1697, Dr. Thomas Molyneux provided the first ... were still living in remote regions. Dr. Thomas Molyneux, the naturalist ...
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  • of softer materials such as bone and wood.Thomas Plummer, [https://onlinelibrary ... the technological evolution of humankind.Thomas Crump, A Brief History of ...
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  • in Human Interaction (Wadsworth: Thomas Learning, 2007, ISBN 0155063723 ... impact content and customs; for example, Thomas Edison had to discover that ...
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  • A chance meeting with Thomas Huxley led to an invitation to study ... of comparative psychology."Roger K. Thomas, "Lloyd Morgan’s Canon ...
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  • and expectation. His father was the Rev. Thomas Butler, Rector of Langar; ... literature. The English satirist Aldous Huxley openly admitted the influence ...
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  • the best interests of humanity.Anthony Thomas, Rhodes: The Race for Africa ... the prize together with Andrew Fielding Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. ...
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  • Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels, Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus ... #039;s' Moriae Encomium (1509), and Thomas More's Utopia (1516 ...
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  • Lubbock spoke in support of the evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley at the famous 1860 Oxford evolution debate. During the 1860s, he published many ...
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  • writers, such as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe and Greene himself ... other Elizabethan dramatists, especially Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe ...
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  • with Conrad Aiken, Eliot, Lewis and Aldous Huxley, of Chaman Lall's London ... #039; from Theophrastus, Joseph Hall, Sir Thomas Overbury, Nicolas Breton ...
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  • God. He met the young naturalist Thomas Huxley who was to become a close ... against Darwin. In the ensuing debate Thomas Huxley established himself as ...
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  • to write. Later that year he entered Thomas Morley's Commercial ... in London, studying biology under T. H. Huxley. As an alumnus, he later ...
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  • lecture in 1869, Darwin's great advocate Thomas H. Huxley attacked Thomson's calculations, suggesting they appeared precise in themselves but ...
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  • Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet ( August 13, 1819 – February 1, 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist who made many important ...
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  • In 1938, Krishnamurti made the acquaintance of Aldous Huxley who had ... In prior discussions he had compared himself with Thomas Edison, implying ...
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  • is the Bodleian, founded in 1598 by Sir Thomas Bodley. With over 8 million ... are Evelyn Waugh, Lewis Carroll, Aldous Huxley, Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis ...
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  • *Christopher, Thomas, Margaret Roach, and Douglas Brenner. Gardening ... *Huxley, Anthony. An Illustrated History of Gardening. London: Macmillan ...
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  • some of his stories, and introduced him to Thomas W. White, editor of the Southern ... nothing in it."Silverman, 265. Aldous Huxley wrote that Poe's writing ...
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  • Bentham’s hedonism came under fire from some critics, notably Thomas ... world (perhaps along the lines of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World) in which ...
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  • works of Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, and others. Natural ... with the body. The Christian Aristotelian Thomas Aquinas sought to reconcile ...
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  • with the Khazars. This theory is echoed by Thomas Noonan, who asserts that ... *Noonan, Thomas. "The Khazar Qaghanate and Its Impact On the ...
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  • was also introduced to the work of Thomas Mann, who became equally ... the work of modern writers James Joyce and Thomas Mann in his lectures and ...
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  • James, Darwin, Bertrand Russell, T. H. Huxley, John Stuart Mill, Einstein ... George Berkeley. Along with Adam Smith and Thomas Reid, he was one of the most ...
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  • years he was particularly close to Aldous Huxley, a loyal companion who was ... * Study of Thomas Hardy and other essays (1914), edited by Bruce Steele ...
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  • Julian Huxley gives a slightly different categorization of culture ... by Christian philosophers such as St. Thomas Aquinas and Erasmus and Christian ...
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  • clear to contemporary readers. Debates between Thomas Huxley and Richard Owen focused on the idea of human evolution. Huxley convincingly illustrated ...
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  • *Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1895. Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays ... *Shroder, Thomas. Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who ...
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  • Four, Evgeny Zamyatin's We and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are ... * Disch, Thomas M., The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of. New York: Free ...
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  • of southcentral Alaska. The anthropologist Thomas Huxley in On the Methods and Results of Ethnology (1865) defined the "Esquimaux race" ...
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  • period. This collection indirectly led to Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ... William Caxton's 1485 edition of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ...
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  • to Thought” in which he argued, contra Thomas Henry Huxley, that consciousness ... *Evans, Rand B., Virginia Staudt Sexton, and Thomas C. Cadwallader ...
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  • of Eliot's Four Quartets) and Aldous Huxley's The Gioconda Smile. ... *Lewis, Roger. Anthony Burgess. Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. ISBN 9780312322519 ...
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  • Robert Bakewell and Thomas Coke introduced selective breeding (mating ... scientific method. It continued with Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), England ...
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  • The poem was translated into English by Harry Thomas. Barańczak|1990 ... In the 1983 novel Firefox Down by Craig Thomas, captured American ...
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