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Handbook of the Historiography of Biology
This handbook offers original, critical perspectives on different approaches to the history of biology. This collection is intended to start a new conversation among historians of …
Price of Altruism
When George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men. This title includes Price's personal and professional journey that is woven into a …
Evolutions
'Daring, learned and humane... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt. We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, …
Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology
The stories of nineteen scientists--some famous, some forgotten--who stubbornly challenged assumptions and icons in the life sciences This book is the first devoted to modern …
The Man Who Invented the Chromosome
Born by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of farming life and …
Outsider Scientists
Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by "e;outsiders"e; in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between …
Man Who Invented the Chromosome
Born by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of farming life and …
Handbook of the Historiography of Biology
This handbook offers original, critical perspectives on different approaches to the history of biology. This collection is intended to start a new conversation among historians of …
Evolutions
A reimagining of modern science and ancient mythology, and of what it means to be human.
Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences
What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that have spawned new innovations, and …
Outsider Scientists
Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and …
Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
A brilliant lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human, from the award-winning author of The Price of Altruism We no longer think, like the …