Mount Huxley (California)

Mount Huxley is a 13,092-foot (3,990 m) 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.

The area around the peaks, known as the Evolution Region, includes Evolution Basin, Evolution Valley, Evolution Meadow and Evolution Creek.

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.

Mt. Huxley