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UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

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Snouters, by Harald Stumpke (actually, Gerolf Steiner)

Every scientific discipline has inside jokes. Why? Because they perform social or intellectual work. In this post, Professor Joe Cain links jokelore to his project on one of biology’s most famous jokes, the Rhinogradentia, or More...
Robert Fitzroy is buried in Upper Norwood Cemetery (photographs)
Eoörnis pterovelox gobiensis (Eoornis) | EGP
Interview with Robert Evan Sloan (1929-2019)
Darwin in London – Commemorative Plaques and Family Baptism Records
Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov (1880-1959) Russian population geneticist

Synthesis Period in Evolution

Haldane. Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection (1924-1934)

JBS Haldane wrote his “Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection,” as a series of ten papers between 1924 and 1934. These were published across four journal titles, three of which were published by Cambridge Philosophical More...
Evolution: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 1 | EGP
Patricide in the Repeated Assassination of George Gaylord Simpson
Physiological Genetics: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 3 | EGP
Society for the Study of Speciation – 1941 documents | EGP
George Gaylord Simpson’s “Night Thoughts on Leaving the American Museum of Natural History”

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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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