modern evolutionary synthesis

Biology·Science·Science & Technology Figures·Tributes

J.B.S. Haldane Biography: Rebel of Modern Genetics

One way to begin a J.B.S. Haldane biography is in a muddy trench on the Western Front. A young British officer, already famous in his regiment for a reckless courage that bordered…

Biology·Science·Science & Technology Figures·Tributes

Ernst Mayr biography: Darwin’s 20th-Century Heir

To tell an Ernst Mayr biography is to trace the arc of a century in which biology reinvented itself. When he was born in 1904, evolution was still a contested idea and…