Question

How did these scientists' findings and publications relate to the commonly held beliefs of the day?

Ernst Mayr
Stephen Gould
Herbert Spencer
Thomas Huxley

Answer 1

Open Study is a tutoring site, not an answering service. No one is going to write this essay for you; however, these were all very famous scientists and there is a lot of info out there on them. If there is something specific that you don't understand about any of these scientists' work, please do post it!

Answer 2

I'm sure this is a tutoring site. So tutor me on how their findings and publications relate to the commonly held beliefs of the day. I've tried researching on google, wikipedia, and ask.com, guess what? There was overall 0 answers.

Answer 3

There are wikis on these scientists. The wikis are quite informative:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mayr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Gould
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Huxley

Answer 4

That's exactly what I typed in, and I actually tried editing it.
No, the wiki concentrates on the person, not the findings itself.

Answer 5

The wikis have lay person's summaries of the work and how it was recieved. For more detail, there is a list of references at the bottom of the Wiki. You will find them helpful.

Answer 6

Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist (anatomist), known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.[1]

Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career. Huxley had been planning to leave Oxford on the previous day, but, after an encounter with Robert Chambers, the author of Vestiges, he changed his mind and decided to join the debate. Wilberforce was coached by Richard Owen, against whom Huxley also debated whether humans were closely related to apes.

Answer 7

So Henry's main finding was that he was Darwin's bulldog.