Harvard professor emeritus Everett I. Mendelsohn stands on the Great Wall of China in July 2005. Mendelsohn, known for his pioneering work studying the history of biology and the relationship between ...

Even before the end of World War II, scientists working on the Manhattan Project saw a future for their work beyond military might. A new book by Princeton University historian Angela Creager explains ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Journal of the History of Biology is devoted to the history of the biological sciences, with additional interest and concern in ...

The relationship between biological and social science is a long-standing area of interest for researchers on both sides of the divide, as well as in the humanities, where historians, among others, ...

Darren Curnoe receives funding from the Australian Research Council. How many kinds of plants and animals are there in the world? Where do humans fit within the vast fabric of life? Indeed, how did ...

THIS is a wise and instructive book, such as we have learned to expect from Prof. Miall. It is scholarly but restrained, so that the reader is not overwhelmed with too much learning. It is a model of ...

In the summer of 1960, doctors extracted “crimson sludge” from 6-year-old Barbara Lowry’s bones and gave it to her twin. That surgery, one of the first successful bone marrow transplants, belied the ...

In discussing the origins of the antievolution movement in American high schools within the framework of science and religion, much is overlooked about the influence of educational trends in shaping ...

Evolutionary biogeography; community and conservation ecology; human impact on native ecosystems; ecology, distribution, and systematics of mammals of western North America and Middle America; science ...

His forthcoming book, “The Song of the Cell,” part of what he says will be a quartet, is “fundamentally about understanding the units that organize our life.” Writing books is a “compulsion” for ...

The discovery of a tiny foot bone millions of years old reveals Aotearoa New Zealand was once home to a songbird species with ...

Armed with a vast amount of genomic information, a team of researchers has performed the first molecular dating to gain the clearest picture yet of the biogeographical history of cockroaches. They ...