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Thomas Henry Huxley
1825–1895
A fierce defender of Charles Darwin’s ideas, this Victorian biologist helped bring evolution into public debate and became one of the most influential science writers of his age. His essays combine sharp argument, clarity, and a strong belief that science should shape modern thought.
55 Audiobooks
Science and Culture, and Other Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Autobiography and Selected Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Origin of Species
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Yeast
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Collected Essays, Volume V
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Science & Education: Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Lectures and Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology.
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Zeugnisse für die Stellung des Menschen in der Natur
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Has a Frog a Soul?
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
by Thomas Henry Huxley
On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species'
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Hume
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Half Hours With Modern Scientists: Lectures and Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley, George F. (George Frederick) Barker, E. D. (Edward Drinker) Cope, James Hutchison Stirling, John Tyndall
On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge
by Thomas Henry Huxley
On the Method of Zadig
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes
by Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley
Lectures and Essays
by Thomas Henry Huxley
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
by Thomas Henry Huxley
American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Lectures on Evolution
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Discourses: Biological & Geological
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Mr. Gladstone and Genesis
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature
by Thomas Henry Huxley
On Some Fossil Remains of Man
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Coral and Coral Reefs
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Darwinian Hypothesis
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Past Condition of Organic Nature
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Hasisadra's Adventure
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Criticisms on "The Origin of Species"
by Thomas Henry Huxley
A Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Work, "On the Origin of Species," in Relation to the Complete Theory of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Method by Which the Causes of the Present and Past Conditions of Organic Nature Are to Be Discovered; the Origination of Living Beings
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Critiques and Addresses
by Thomas Henry Huxley
On the Study of Zoology
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Present Condition of Organic Nature
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Conditions of Existence as Affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Science Primers, Introductory
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Time and Life: Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species"
by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Perpetuation of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission and Variation
by Thomas Henry Huxley
About the author
Born in 1825 and dying in 1895, Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist, educator, and essayist who became one of the best-known scientific voices of the Victorian era. He is especially remembered for championing Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution so forcefully that he was nicknamed “Darwin’s Bulldog.”
Huxley built his reputation through research, public lectures, and essays that made difficult scientific ideas readable for a broad audience. He wrote on evolution, human origins, education, philosophy, and the place of science in society, and he is also associated with the term “agnostic,” which he helped popularize.
For listeners today, his work offers more than scientific history. It captures a moment when modern ideas about evidence, religion, and education were being argued out in public, often with Huxley at the center of the debate.