In evolutionary thermodynamics, Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975) was an English evolutionary biologist noted for his view that the second law is inoperable in the case of evolution. His grandfather was Thomas Huxley, coiner of the term social chemistry, and his brother was Aldous Huxley, noted for his use of entropy in literature. He has supposedly has the view that the attainment of greater complexity in the forms of life denies the second law of thermodynamics and the actions of entropy, in that: [1]

“While the universe of physics is running down; the universe of evolution is winding up … on this planet the second law of thermodynamics is now not working, and of course [this] opens up the possibility that there may be agencies operating in the universe supplying energy which would enable the whole cosmos to behave in an anti-entropic manner.”

Huxley began discussing views on the second law and evolution in his 1931 Science and Religion: a Symposium, views which he seems to cull from Arthur Eddington and William Thomson. [2] Huxley elaborated on his anti-entropy views in his 1953 Evolution in Action. [3] In 1959, he was professing the view that evolution is an antientropic process running counter to the second law of thermodynamics. [4] In his 1964 Essays of a Humanist he explains that: [5]


In 1964, Huxley was commented on French philosopher Pierre Teilhard’s anti-entropy type theory of noosphere. [5] Likewise, previously, in an unpublished manuscript dated November 19, 1951 (dedicated to Julian Huxley), in a section titled "The Transformation, starting with Man, of the Process of Evolution", Teilhard defined anti-entropy as "an effect of changes that are seized, draws a portion of matter in the direction of continually higher forms of structurization and centration." [6] Huxley also had commentary on French philosopher Henri Bergson’s élan vital evolution theory.

References
1. D’Arc, Joan. (2000). Space Travelers and the Genesis of the Human Form (pg. 125). Book Tree.
2. Huxley, Julian. (1931). Science and Religion: a Symposium (pg. 149). C. Scribner’s and Sons.
3. Huxley, Julian. (1953). Evolution in Action (pg. 5). Harper.
4. Callicott, J. Baird and Ames, Roger T. (1989). Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought (pg. 40). SUNY press.
5. Huxley, Julian. (1964). Essays of a Humanist (pgs. 29, 216; noosphere, pgs. 80, 203-04). Harper & Row.
6. Telhard, Pierre. (1976). Activation of Energy, (pgs. 302-3). New York: Harvest Book.

External links
● Julian Huxley – Wikipedia.