Mount Huxley (California) Explained

Mount Huxley
Elevation Ft:13,092
Elevation Ref:[1]
Prominence Ft:366
Range:Sierra Nevada
Listing:Sierra Peaks Section[2]
Location:Fresno County, California, US
Map:USA California#USA
Map Size:220
Label Position:right
Coordinates:37.1362°N -118.6828°W
Coordinates Ref:[3]
Topo:USGS Mount Darwin

Mount Huxley is a 13092feet mountain in the Sierra Nevada, in Fresno County. It is on the Goddard Divide in Kings Canyon National Park and rises above the Evolution Basin. Other nearby mountains in the group include Mount Darwin, Mount Fiske, Mount Haeckel, Mount Mendel, Mount Spencer, Mount Wallace, and Mount Lamarck. The area around the peaks, known as the Evolution Region, includes Evolution Basin, Evolution Valley, Evolution Meadow and Evolution Creek.

History

Theodore S. Solomons named a series of mountains for six of the major exponents of the theory of evolution.[4] Mount Huxley is named for English biologist and anthropologist Thomas Henry Huxley who specialized in comparative anatomy. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog".[5]

Notes and References

  1. 2704 . Mount Huxley, California . 2016-04-26.
  2. 2008-09-28.
  3. 261665 . Mount Huxley . 2016-04-26.
  4. Book: Browning, Peter . Place Names of the Sierra Nevada . . 1986 . Berkeley . 67 . 0-89997-119-9 .
  5. Web site: Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) . Samantha . Hauserman . 2013-11-26 . The Embryo Project Encyclopedia . 2019-08-23.