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Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

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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 More...
Pro-Evolution Magazine “Evolution: A Journal of Nature,” 1927-1938
George Carpenter’s 1894 Essay on Collections to Illustrate Evolution and Geographical Distribution of Animals
John Edmonstone: References from Charles Darwin
Statue from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the British Museum
Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov (1880-1959) Russian population geneticist

Synthesis Period in Evolution

Patricide in the Repeated Assassination of George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson was the undisputed American heavy-weight in macro-evolutionary theory prior to paleobiology’s disciplinary formation in the 1970s. Memory of Simpson’s intellectual influence on this next generation of thinkers is tied intimately to aggressive More...
Haldane. Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection (1924-1934)
George Gaylord Simpson’s “Night Thoughts on Leaving the American Museum of Natural History”
Columbia Biological Series, 1894-1974
Sewall Wright Taught Me series: Evolution, Genetics, Physiological Genetics | EGP
New Evidence on Dobzhansky 1936 “Jesup” lectures

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Dunn in Germany 1928, in Dunn Papers, folder: “Photographs #1”. Courtesy of APS Library.

The Situation in Genetics: Leslie Clarence Dunn’s 1927 Russian Tour

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In 2003, I co-authored publication of a transcription of Leslie Clarence Dunn‘s 1927 report on genetics research facilities in Russia. This appeared in the Mendel Newsletter, published by the American Philosophical Society Library as Joe Cain More...

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