Biography:

BA (Cambridge), MSc (Sussex), PhD (Toronto), FBA, MRIA, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Research Interests

The development and implications of Darwinism. History of the environmental sciences. Science and religion, especially twentieth century. Popular science writing.

Current research is on the production of popular science literature in early twentieth-century Britain, with particular emphasis on the role played by professional scientists.

Select Publications

'Experts and Publishers: Writing Popular Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain,' British Journal for the History of Science, 39 (2006).

Evolution: The History of an Idea. 3rd edn. (California, 2003).

Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. (Chicago, 2001).

Lifes Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Lifes Ancestry, 1960-1940. (Chicago, 1996).

Charles Darwin: The Man and his Influence. (Cambridge, 1996).

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