Julian Huxley -- People in Osho's Talks

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Huxley, Julian
1887-1975 87 years

British writer, zoologist, evolutionary scientist, etc.

born London, England

part of the well known Huxley family of England,
scientists and progressive thinkers connected to
the Charles Darwin intellectual lineage.

brother Aldous also known for his writings -- Brave
New World, etc.

lived and taught in US for awhile --Texas
worked in Africa also

married, children

   One of the great scientists, Julian Huxley, has
a certain hypothesis -- there is no way to prove it,
but it seems to have certain significance. After his
whole life's research he concludes that, "It seems
something has gone wrong in the very mechanism
of man. Because no tree seems to be in anxiety,
no animal commits suicide in the wild, no animal
becomes a homosexual in the wild."

But something strange happens in the zoos.
When animals are kept in a zoo, they start getting
some great qualities of your humanity: they
become homosexuals. Animals have even been
found to commit suicide in zoos. They become
perverted, they start doing things which none of
their ancestors have ever done, in millennia.

What happens in the zoo? They become part of
the human society. They start imitating human
beings...

                                                -- Osho
                           Om Mani Padme Hum, ch. 11