The Individual in the Animal Kingdom

Julian S. Huxley, Richard Gawne, Jacobus Boomsma

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MIT Press
17 May 2022

Biology, life sciences

The groundbreaking first book by a major evolutionary biologist, published in 1912, that anticipated current thinking about organismal complexity.

The groundbreaking first book by a major evolutionary biologist, published in 1912, that anticipated current thinking about organismal complexity.

Julian Huxley's The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, published in 1912, is a concise and groundbreaking work that is almost entirely unknown today. In it, Huxley analyzes the evolutionary advances in life's organizational complexity, anticipating many of today's ideas about changes in individuality. Huxley's overarching system of concepts and his coherent logical principles were so far ahead of their time that they remain valid to this day. In part, this is because his explicitly Darwinian approach carefully distinguished between the integrated form and function of hierarchies within organisms and loosely defined, nonorganismal ecological communities.

In The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, we meet a youthful Huxley who uses his commanding knowledge of natural history to develop a nonreductionist account of life's complexity that aligns with seminal early insights by Darwin, Wallace, Weismann, and Wheeler. As volume editors Richard Gawne and Jacobus Boomsma point out, this work disappeared into oblivion despite its relevance for contemporary research on organismal complexity and major evolutionary transitions. This MIT Press edition gives Huxley's book a second hearing, offering readers a unique vantage point on the discoveries of evolutionary biology past and present.

By: Julian S. Huxley, Richard Gawne
Foreword by: Jacobus Boomsma
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262045377
ISBN 10: 0262045370
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 17 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword ix Richard Gawne and Jacobus J. Boomsma Glossary xli Richard Gawne and Jacobus J. Boomsma Preface xlv Julian S. Huxley I The Idea of Individuality 1 II The Biological Foundations of Individuality 25 III Some Other Definitions of Animal Individuality 51 IV The Second Grade of Individuality and Its Attainment 65 V The Later Progress of Individuality 87 VI The Relation of Individuality to Matter; Conclusion 111 Literature Cited 119 Appendix A 121 Appendix B 123 Notes 127 Index 133

Julian Huxley (1887-1975), an English evolutionary biologist, was a prolific author and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century effort to consolidate the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory. Richard Gawne is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and coeditor of The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects (MIT Press). Jacobus Boomsma is Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Copenhagen.

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