Francis Huxley (28 August 1923 – 29 October 2016) was a British

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, anthropologist and author. He is a son of

Julian Huxley Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. ...

. His brother was

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. His uncle was

Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley ...

. He was one of the founders of

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Works

* ''Affable Savages: An Anthropologist Among the Urubu Indians of Brazil.'' Viking, New York, 1957, * ''The Invisibles: Voodoo Gods in Haiti.'' Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1966 * ''The Way Of The Sacred.'' Doubleday, New York, 1974 *''Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge'', New York 2001, edited by

Jeremy Narby Jeremy Narby (born 1959 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian anthropologist and author. In his books, Narby examines shamanism, molecular biology, and shamans' knowledge of botanics and biology through the use of entheogens across many cultures ...

and Francis Huxley *''The Raven and the Writing Desk'', an exploration of the writings of Lewis Carroll, in the Alice books, Harper & Row, New York, 1976

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Huxley, Francis 1923 births 2016 deaths British botanists British anthropologists

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People educated at Gordonstoun