Remarkable Biologists: From Ray to Hamilton
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Profiles 38 eminent biologists from the last 400 years, focusing on their varied life-stories rather than their achievements.
Preface viiPrologue ix1 From Ray to Leeuwenhoek 1John Ray (1627-1705) 1Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) 4Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) 7Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) 112 From de Reaumur to Hunter 15Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur (1683-1757) 15Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) 19Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) 23John Hunter (1728-1793) 273 From Banks to Humboldt 31Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) 31Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) 35Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) 39Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) 464 From Geoffroy to Hooker 53Etienne Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844) 53Robert Brown (1773-1858) 57John James Audubon (1785-1851) 63Sir William Hooker (1785-1865) 675 From Gould to Darwin 70John Gould (1804-1881) 70Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) 75Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) 79Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 886 From Gray to Galton 94Asa Gray (1810-1888) 94Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) 96Richard Spruce (1817-1893) 99Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) 1027 From Mendel to Potter 108Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) 108Alfred Wallace (1823-1913) 111Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) 124Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) 1318 From Fisher to Hirohito of Japan 136Sir Ronald Fisher (1890-1962) 136John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892-1964) 140Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956) 145Dame Honor Fell (1900-1986) 150Emperor Hirohito of Japan (1901-1989) 1529 From McClintock to Hamilton 155Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) 155Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988) 158Rachel Carson (1907-1964) 162Francis Crick (1916-2004) 165William Hamilton (1936-2000) 168Epilogue 172Bibliography 176ImageCredits 183
