Adrian Desmond
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Adrian Desmond
Adrian John Desmond (born 1947) is an English writer on the history of science.
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Life
He studied at London University and Harvard University, doing work for higher degrees in vertebrate palaeontology and the history of science. He was awarded a Ph.D. in the area of the Victorian-period context of Darwinian evolution.[1]
Desmond is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Biology Department at University College London.[2][3]
Works
- The Hot-blooded Dinosaurs: a revolution in palaeontology (1975)
- The Ape's Reflexion (1979)
- Archetypes and Ancestors (1982)
- The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, medicine and reform in radical London (1989). This work won the Pfizer Award.[4]
- Darwin (1991) with James Moore. This work won the James Tait Black Prize, the Comisso Prize for biography in Italy, the Watson Davis Prize of the US History of Science Society and the Dingle Prize of the British Society for the History of Science.[5]
- Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery, and the Quest for Human Origins (2009)
Notes
- ^ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt page.
- ^ BBC News, Darwin's twin track: 'Evolution and emancipation' .
- ^ James Richard Moore, History, Humanity and Evolution: Essays for John C. Greene (2002), p. xi; Google Books.
- ^ Pfizer Award Winners
- ^ Penguin Books author page, Adrian Desmond
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