The American Development of Biology - Softcover

 
9780813517025: The American Development of Biology

Synopsis

The papers in this volume represent original work to celebrate the centenary of the American Society of Zoologists. They illustrate the impressive nature of historical scholarship that has subsequently focused on the development of biology in the United States.

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About the Author

RONALD RAINGER is an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University. He has published a number of articles on the history of anthropology and paleontology and is the author of An Agenda for Antiquity: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890–1935.

KEITH R. BENSON is an associate professor of medical history and ethics at the University of Washington. He has published papers on biology at Johns Hopkins University, the American natural history tradition, and the history of marine biology.

JANE MAIENSCHEIN is a professor of philosophy and zoology at Arizona State University. She is the editor of Defining Biology: Lectures from the 1890's and has recently completed Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880–1915.
 

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9780812280920: The American Development of Biology (Anniversary Collection)

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ISBN 10:  081228092X ISBN 13:  9780812280920
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988
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