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Mount Huxley
Mount Huxley is located in California
Mount Huxley
Mount Huxley
Location in California
Mount Huxley is located in the United States
Mount Huxley
Mount Huxley
Location in the United States
Highest point
Elevation 13,092 ft (3,990 m) NAVD 88
Prominence 366 ft (112 m)
Listing Sierra Peaks Section
Geography
Location Fresno County, California, US
Parent range Sierra Nevada
Topo map USGS Mount Darwin

Mount Huxley is a 13,092-foot (3,990 m) mountain in the Sierra Nevada, in Fresno County. It in 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. Mount Huxley is named for English biologist and anthropologist Thomas Henry Huxley who specialized in comparative anatomy. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog".

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