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Richard Owen (1804-1892)
- Owen synthesized French anatomical work, especially from Cuvier and Geoffroy, with German transcendental anatomy. He gave us many of the terms still used today in anatomy and evolutionary biology, including "homology". Owen famously defined homology in 1843 as "the same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function."
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/owen.html
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
- His name is somewhat obscure today, due in part to the enmity of his famous, influential, and extremely vindictive colleague, Sir Isaac Newton. Yet Hooke was perhaps the single greatest experimental scientist of the seventeenth century. His interests knew no bounds, ranging from physics and astronomy, to chemistry, biology, and geology, to architecture and naval technology...
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/hooke.html
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The Alfred Russel Wallace Page
- My site on Alfred Russel Wallace contains the full-text of over 100 of his writings, extensive bibliographies, and various kinds of commentary. It is one of the largest history of science-oriented sites on the Web.
http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/index1.htm
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The History of Cell Biology
- Too many colleagues forget what is already known in scientific literature. Acting as independent researchers they have ignored the findings of their predecessors. I discovered by searching the Internet that web-sites often include contradictory descriptions of the same facts or events. If study of scientific history was adequately funded, we would be compelled to write it anew.
http://actomyosin.narod.ru/history/history.htm
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The Nobel Channel
- Nobel prize archive.
http://www.nobelchannel.com/
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The Works of Charles Darwin Online
- Links to full-length, online versions of Charles Darwin's most important books: The Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species, and The Descent of Man.
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/
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The World of Richard Dawkins
- Richard Dawkins was educated at Oxford University and has taught zoology at the universities of California and Oxford. He is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His books about evolution and science include The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, and most recently, Unweaving the Rainbow.
http://www.world-of-dawkins.com
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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
- Thomas Henry Huxley was one of the first adherents to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and did more than anyone else to advance its acceptance among scientists and the public alike.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/thuxley.html
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Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
- Malthus was a political economist who was concerned about, what he saw as, the decline of living conditions in nineteenth century England. He blamed this decline on three elements: The overproduction of young; the inability of resources to keep up with the rising human population; and the irresponsibility of the lower classes. To combat this, Malthus suggested the family size of the lower class ought to be regulated such that poor families do not produce more children than they can support.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/malthus.html
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William Paley (1743-1805)
- His most influential contribution to biological thought was his book Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature, first published in 1802. In this book, Paley laid out a full exposition of natural theology, the belief that the nature of God could be understood by reference to His creation, the natural world.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/paley.html
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