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Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

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Phrenology Consultation with Professor Cross

Professor W. Cross was a phrenologist who gave popular public performances at London’s Royal Aquarium in the 1880s and 1890s. Phrenology was the quack medical practice of studying bumps on the head under the false pretence of More...
What Happened to Darwin’s House on Gower Street?
Pro-Evolution Magazine “Evolution: A Journal of Nature,” 1927-1938
What’s Wrong With Fisher? He Was A Eugenicist
Nature of Gothic: A Chapter from The Stones of Venice (John Ruskin) | EGP
Scopes Monkey Trial 1925 – Complete Trial Transcripts

Synthesis Period in Evolution

New Evidence on Dobzhansky 1936 “Jesup” lectures

Who says nothing exciting ever happens in historical research? This letter reports on a recent important find regarding the population geneticist, Theodosius Dobzhansky, and his famous 1937 book, Genetics and the Origin of Species. Most historians More...
Descended from Darwin – Context for the Evolutionary Synthesis
Haldane. Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection (1924-1934)
Evolution: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 1 | EGP
George Gaylord Simpson’s “Night Thoughts on Leaving the American Museum of Natural History”
Sewall Wright Taught Me series: Evolution, Genetics, Physiological Genetics | EGP

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Hand Dynanometer - UCL Galton Collection GALT 038 Copyright 2015 UCL Creative Services

What Happened to the UCL Galton Collection?

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UCL Galton Collection is hard to find. It has been made increasingly invisible. This has happened through actions taken by its caretakers to depreciate its digital access, ignore communities of interest, and pretend it no More...

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