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Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

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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 More...
Haldane. Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection (1924-1934)
Shakespeare and Science: Biology, Physics, Chemistry and More from the Bard | EGP
Snouters, by Harald Stumpke (actually, Gerolf Steiner)
How Extremely Stupid: Source for Huxley’s Famous Quote
What Happened to Darwin’s House on Gower Street?

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One Hundred and One Mendelians – Buttolph (2008)

For many years, we operated in STS UCL a portfolio website, “Made in STS UCL“. Recently, we took the difficult decision to withdraw that site. The concept behind the site was to provide a portfolio More...
Patricide in the Repeated Assassination of George Gaylord Simpson
Society for the Study of Speciation – 1941 documents | EGP
Joseph Henry Woodger (1894-1981) Papers at University College London (UCL)
Sewall Wright Taught Me series: Evolution, Genetics, Physiological Genetics | EGP
Physiological Genetics: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 3 | EGP

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Professor Cross's Phrenological Chart, 1892

Phrenology Consultation with Professor Cross

by Joe.1 in Blog

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...

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