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200 10$aWe are amphibians $eJulian and Aldous Huxley on the future of our species /$fR. S. Deese
210  1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2015.
210  4$dİ2015
215   $a1 online resource (627 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-28152-7 
311   $a1-322-16636-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tIntroduction: "The Question of Questions for Mankind" --$t1. Late Victorians --$t2. Twilight of Utopias --$t3. Spiritual Biology --$t4. Ape and Essence --$t5. We Are Amphibians --$tEpilogue: The Future of Our Species --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex
330   $aWe Are Amphibians tells the fascinating story of two brothers who changed the way we think about the future of our species. As a pioneering biologist and conservationist, Julian Huxley helped advance the "modern synthesis" in evolutionary biology and played a pivotal role in founding UNESCO and the World Wildlife Fund. His argument that we must accept responsibility for our future evolution as a species has attracted a growing number of scientists and intellectuals who embrace the concept of Transhumanism that he first outlined in the 1950's. Although Aldous Huxley is most widely known for his dystopian novel Brave New World, his writings on religion, ecology, and human consciousness were powerful catalysts for the environmental and human potential movements that grew rapidly in the second half of the twentieth century. While they often disagreed about the role of science and technology in human progress, Julian and Aldous Huxley both believed that the future of our species depends on a saner set of relations with each other and with our environment. Their common concern for ecology has given their ideas about the future of Homo sapiens an enduring resonance in the twenty-first century. The amphibian metaphor that both brothers used to describe humanity highlights not only the complexity and mutability of our species but also our ecologically precarious situation.
606   $aHuman evolution
606   $aHuman ecology
610   $abiology.
610   $abrave new world.
610   $acomparative religion.
610   $aconservation.
610   $aconservationism.
610   $adystopia.
610   $aecology.
610   $aevolutionary biology.
610   $afuture of our species.
610   $afuture.
610   $ahuman consciousness.
610   $ahuman progress.
610   $ahumanity.
610   $ahuxley brothers.
610   $ainternational politics.
610   $amodern synthesis.
610   $apolitical science.
610   $apolitics.
610   $aprecarious situation.
610   $areligion.
610   $areligious studies.
610   $aresponsibility.
610   $atranshumanism.
610   $atwo brothers.
610   $aunesco.
610   $aunited nations educational scientific and cultural organization.
610   $aunited nations.
610   $aworld wildlife fund.
615  0$aHuman evolution.
615  0$aHuman ecology.
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