Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (18381915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twe...

Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of h...

How does one deal with a diagnosis of Parkinsons disease at the age of forty-three? My Degeneration, by former Anchorage Daily News staff cartoonis...

Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren''t encouraged to do much outside the h...

Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell Hatcher. The li...

With his deeply informed and compassionate bookDr. Epstein tells us that it is a moral imperative [for doctors] to do right by their patients (New ...

William Stimpson was at the forefront of the American natural history community in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Stimpson displayed an...

The evolutionist Ernst Mayr considered August Weismann one of the great biologists of all time. Yet the man who formulated the germ plasm theorytha...