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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...
What’s Wrong With Fisher? He Was A Eugenicist
One Hundred and One Mendelians – Buttolph (2008)
Haldane. Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection (1924-1934)
Music of the Stars – Live Performance Celebrating History of Astronomy
No Ordinary Space: UCL Grant Museum | EGP

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Society for the Study of Speciation – 1941 documents | EGP

Organising the Society for the Study of Speciation was a simple affair in 1939. The job of implementing its vision fell upon the entomologist Alfred Emerson, recruited to serve as Secretary. ‘The need was felt by More...
Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov (1880-1959) Russian population geneticist
Historical Significance of George Gaylord Simpson’s Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944)
Patricide in the Repeated Assassination of George Gaylord Simpson
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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Closed sign during Covid Lockdown, from "When the Roof Blew Off," in Lockdown Cultures - Photo Essay - ProfJoeCain

When The Roof Blew Off – Photoessay – Covid Lockdown Cultures

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This photo essay was written in 2021 for a volume about the closure of communities associated with covid pandemic lockdowns. It began as a photoessay to document the closure of my town (Hove, UK) during More...

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