"Outsider Scientists" describes the transformative role played by outsiders in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose primary training was in other fields: mathematics, physics, chemistry, linguistics, philosophy, history, anthropology, engineering, and even literature. These outsiders brought with them ideas and tools that were foreign to biology, but which, when applied to biological problems, helped to bring about dramatic, and often surprising, breakthroughs.This...

This handbook offers original, critical perspectives on different approaches to the history of biology. Historical scholarship does not take place in isolation: As historians create their narratives describing the past, they are in dialogue not only with their sources but with other historians and other narratives.

A brilliant reimagining of modern science and ancient mythology, and of what it means to be human.

A reimagining of modern science and ancient mythology, and of what it means to be human.