Tag: evolutionary biology
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Richard Dawkins Biography: Life, Ideas and Controversy
In the second half of the twentieth century, few writers managed to smuggle such difficult science into everyday conversation as successfully as Richard Dawkins. This Richard Dawkins biography is, in one sense, the story of a mild-mannered Oxford zoologist who became a lightning rod for debates about evolution, religion and reason itself. In another sense,…
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Ernst Haeckel Biography: Art, Evolution & Controversy
In the late nineteenth century, few figures embodied both the brilliance and the blind spots of modern science as vividly as Ernst Haeckel. Any serious Ernst Haeckel biography has to juggle dazzling marine illustrations, passionate defences of Darwin, bold philosophical claims about the nature of life and mind, and a tangle of controversies that still…
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Sewall Wright Biography: Architect of Population Genetics
In most tellings of 20th-century science, the headlines belong to the stars: Darwin’s intellectual heirs, the fossil hunters, the charismatic lab showmen. Yet one of the most important stories hides in equations scribbled by a shy American geneticist from the Midwest. This Sewall Wright biography is, at its heart, the story of a man who…
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Lynn Margulis Biography: Symbiosis and Evolution Reborn
On a cold November day in 2011, news spread that Lynn Margulis had died at 73, after a stroke at her home in Amherst, Massachusetts. For most people outside science, the name barely registered. Yet anyone who has spent time with a serious Lynn Margulis biography soon discovers a story as disruptive as any in…