Sir Julian Huxley

First Director-General of UNESCO and President of the British Eugenics Society. Coined the term transhumanism in 1957 (New Bottles for New Wine). Occupies the historically unique intersection of global policy and biological engineering. Establishes direct unbroken continuity between 20th-century eugenic population management and contemporary directed human evolution through technology. The ideological substrate of the entire bio-digital convergence. [Report #149] The eugenic-population-management lineage this node substrates extends in policy to the Club of Rome / Limits to Growth / Jorgen Randers (club_of_rome_degrowth) — neo-Malthusian population management (carrying-capacity, one-child/childless demographic-pressure reduction) as the continuation of the eugenic population management Huxley bridged into transhumanism and global governance (UNESCO). [Report #164] (Report #164) Wired as the eugenics->transhumanism->eschatology bridge (all primary-sourced): British Eugenics Society president 1959-62; first UNESCO DG 1946 ('UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy' — 'scientific world humanism, evolutionary in background'); coined 'transhumanism' in the 1957 essay 'New Bottles for New Wine' ('man remaining man, but transcending himself'); argued humanity should consciously direct its own evolution -> singularity_eschatology / genesis. Held; name no holder. [Report #176] Morphological terminus of the eugenics_transatlantic_loop: published 'transhumanism' 1957 (used from 1951). [Report #196] His own words, 1936 Galton Lecture (The Uniqueness of Man, 1941): 'a well-defined target for measures of negative eugenics such as segregation and sterilization'; 'the professional classes will reveal themselves as a reservoir of superior germ-plasm … and therefore will serve as a foundation-stone for experiments in positive eugenics'. Eugenics Society vice-president 1937–44, president 1959–62. Brother of Aldous Huxley (Encyclopedia.com: 'his brother, the writer Aldous Huxley'). Attended the Malthusian League's 1927 Jubilee dinner as a guest; no source records him as a League member (Ledbetter) — the membership claim in Jules Evans's 'Waves of Malthusians' is uncited. His term 'transhumanistic' seeded the name of transpersonal psychology, first presented on an Esalen tape in 1967 (see transpersonal_psychology_naming_1967). No record of Esalen in his papers at Rice University.