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In the long, careful history of laboratory science, the story that sits at the heart of any serious Kary Mullis biography sounds…

One autumn morning in rural Austria, a man in a worn shirt and rubber boots walks across a meadow, trailed…

The rain clung to her parka, the mist swallowing the volcanic slopes as she crawled through mud and bamboo toward…

Anyone trying to make sense of animal behaviour ends up, sooner or later, walking through the pages of a Nikolaas…

On an overcast day in 1968, in a modest office in Mishima, Japan, a reserved population geneticist sketched equations that…

The Carl Linnaeus biography often begins with a boy in a Swedish parsonage, quietly dismantling flowers as if they were…

In the late nineteenth century, few figures embodied both the brilliance and the blind spots of modern science as vividly…

In most tellings of 20th-century science, the headlines belong to the stars: Darwin’s intellectual heirs, the fossil hunters, the charismatic…

In the late nineteenth century, few figures embodied both the brilliance and the blind spots of modern science as vividly…

On a cold November day in 2011, news spread that Lynn Margulis had died at 73, after a stroke at…

To tell an Ernst Mayr biography is to trace the arc of a century in which biology reinvented itself. When he was…

On a winter evening in the late 1830s, a disillusioned lawyer turned botanist peered down a microscope in a German…