The common fruit fly, Drosophila, has long been one of the most productive of all laboratory animals. From 1910 to 1940, the...
Robert Kohler shows exactly how entrepreneurial academic scientists became intimate ''partners in science'' with the officers...
Beginning with Darwin's work in the s, Foundations of Animal Behavior selects the most important works from the discipline's first...
The Lysenko affair was perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the history of modern science. For thirty years, until , Soviet genetics...
In Kindred Nature, Barbara T. Gates highlights the contributions of Victorian and Edwardian women to the study, protection, and...
The Politics of Pure Science, a pioneering and controversial work, set a new standard for the realistic examination of the place...
Drawing on his investigation of over one hundred mid-Victorian British newspapers and periodicals, Alvar Elleg\uerd describes...
Hermann von Helmholtz was a leading figure of nineteenth-century European intellectual life, remarkable even among the many scientists...
How were the tropical Americas formed? This ambitious volume draws on extensive, multidisciplinary research to develop new views...
The story of life's splendid drama has captivated generations of the general public, just as it has intrigued biologists, especially...
Breathtaking in scope, this is the first survey of the entire ecological history of life on land--from the earliest traces of...
One of the first interdisciplinary discussions of taphonomy (the study of how fossil assemblages are formed) and paleoecology...
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