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John Martin's 1837 The Country of the Iguanodon

The Country of the Iguanodon, by Gideon Mantell – Two Versions

“The Country of the Iguanodon” is Gideon Mantell’s attempt to imagine the paleoecology of dinosaurs. Transcripts of 1838 and 1851 descriptions. […]

Gideon Mantell (1851) Petrifactions and Their Teaching, frontispiece, Notoris mantelli

Gideon Mantell’s 1851 Guide to Fossils at British Museum

Gideon Mantell’s 1851 guide to fossils at British Museum, including Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, Hylaeosaurus, marine reptiles, and more. […]

#208 When Fieldwork Goes Wrong Go Public | WeAreSTS

Today, an experiment: can Generative AI replace this podcast? There’s a new feature in the GenAI service, Google Notebook LM, that creates an audio discussion about texts you give it. [...]

Illustration of "ring species" concept, or Rassenkreis

Society for the Study of Speciation: Bibliographic Analysis Using LLM

I provide data for an LLM-based analysis of the short-lived Society for the Study of Speciation (SSS), organised by Alfred Emerson, through three documents. […]

HPSC0009 Introduction to History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science

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HPSC0041 Dissertation

Undergraduates in UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) undertake final year projects resulting in dissertations or research reports. Students undertake a research project largely of their own design in the field of science […]

HPSC0010 History of Modern Science

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Tiger in UCL Grant Museum of Zoology - cover for Cain - No Ordinary Space

No Ordinary Space: UCL Grant Museum | EGP

UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology moved to the Thomas Lewis Room in UCL’s Rockefeller Building in 2011. No Ordinary Space is a book designed to answer popular historical questions about the room, the building, and […]

Second Brown Dog Statue, Battersea Park, London, UK. Joe Cain

Brown Dog Statue in Battersea Park London | EGP

Protests were sure to follow the unveiling of the brown dog statue in Battersea, London, in 1906 in Latchmere Recreation Ground. The little terrier had become the focus of an anti-vivisection campaign directed against Professor William Bayliss […]

Brown Dog and His Memorial (Battersea, London) | EGP

In 1907, London medical students protested over a statue raised to a little brown dog. Bonfires burned late into the night. Large groups marched through the streets clashing with police. Gangs were arrested trying to […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Columbia Biological Series, 1894-1974

Physiological Genetics: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 3 | EGP

One Hundred and One Mendelians – Buttolph (2008)

Ernst Mayr and the Biology of Birds Exhibit at AMNH

Society for the Study of Speciation: Bibliographic Analysis Using LLM

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

The Country of the Iguanodon, by Gideon Mantell – Two Versions

Gideon Mantell’s 1851 Guide to Fossils at British Museum

GenAI in Research

#208 When Fieldwork Goes Wrong Go Public | WeAreSTS

Society for the Study of Speciation: Bibliographic Analysis Using LLM

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HPSC0009 Introduction to History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science

HPSC0041 Dissertation

HPSC0010 History of Modern Science

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No Ordinary Space: UCL Grant Museum | EGP

Brown Dog Statue in Battersea Park London | EGP

Brown Dog and His Memorial (Battersea, London) | EGP