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The Young Charles Darwin
On the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, a new investigation of Darwin’s early years and how he arrived at his revolutionary ideas What sort of person was the young …
HMS "BEAGLE"
This is the story of the ship behind Darwin's legendary voyage.
The Legacy of the Mastodon
A history of the early days of fossil hunting in America, replete with high adventure, ruthless competitors, and amazing scientific discoveries The uncovering in the mid-1700s of …
Private Doubt, Public Dilemma
A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap Each age has its own crisis—our …
Morphogenesis and Evolution
Today developmental and evolutionary biologists are focussing renewed attention on the developmental process--those genetic and cellular factors that influence variation in …
The Common but Less Frequent Loon and Other Essays
The great Piltdown fraud, the mystery of how a shark swims with an asymmetric tail, the debate over dinosaur extinction, the haunting beauty of a loon on a northern lake—these are …
Living Fossil
The story of the discovery of a coelacanth, a fish thought to be extinct for seventy million years, and its study by an eccentric icthyologist is dramatically presented in a work …
The Religion and Science Debate
Six acclaimed scholars—including a biologist, a sociologist, a historian, a philosopher, and a physicist—examine the evolution debate. Eighty-one years after America witnessed the …
Jefferson's Shadow
In the voluminous literature on Thomas Jefferson, little has been written about his passionate interest in science. This new and original study of Jefferson presents him as a …
The Young Charles Darwin
On the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, a new investigation of Darwin’s early years and how he arrived at his revolutionary ideas What sort of person was the young …
Jefferson's Shadow
In the voluminous literature on Thomas Jefferson, little has been written about his passionate interest in science. This new and original study of Jefferson presents him as a …
Private Doubt, Public Dilemma
A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap Each age has its own crisis—our …