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T. H. Huxley (1825–1895) was a prolific writer on many subjects: his Collected Essays dealing with the popularization, theory, and philosophy of evolution alone run to nine volumes and his scientific writings another four. His role as “Darwin’s bulldog,” a sobriquet earned because of his implacable defense of what Stephen Jay Gould has called the “fact of evolution,” has obscured his subtle differences with Darwin as concerned the mechanism of evolution, and his independent approach to the philosophical framework for evolutionary theory.
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Huxley, T.H. (1992). Monism and Epiphenomenalism. In: Emergent Evolution. Episteme, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8042-7_4
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