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  • Remarkable Biologists: From Ray to Hamilton
  • Written by author Ioan James
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, June 2009
  • Profiles 38 eminent biologists from the last 400 years, focusing on their varied life-stories rather than their achievements.
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Preface vii

Prologue ix

1 From Ray to Leeuwenhoek 1

John Ray (1627-1705) 1

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) 4

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) 7

Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) 11

2 From de Reaumur to Hunter 15

Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur (1683-1757) 15

Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) 19

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) 23

John Hunter (1728-1793) 27

3 From Banks to Humboldt 31

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) 31

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) 35

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) 39

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) 46

4 From Geoffroy to Hooker 53

Etienne Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844) 53

Robert Brown (1773-1858) 57

John James Audubon (1785-1851) 63

Sir William Hooker (1785-1865) 67

5 From Gould to Darwin 70

John Gould (1804-1881) 70

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) 75

Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) 79

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 88

6 From Gray to Galton 94

Asa Gray (1810-1888) 94

Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911) 96

Richard Spruce (1817-1893) 99

Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) 102

7 From Mendel to Potter 108

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) 108

Alfred Wallace (1823-1913) 111

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) 124

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) 131

8 From Fisher to Hirohito of Japan 136

Sir Ronald Fisher (1890-1962) 136

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892-1964) 140

Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956) 145

Dame Honor Fell (1900-1986) 150

Emperor Hirohito of Japan (1901-1989) 152

9 From McClintock to Hamilton 155

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) 155

Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988) 158

Rachel Carson (1907-1964) 162

Francis Crick (1916-2004) 165

William Hamilton (1936-2000) 168

Epilogue 172

Bibliography 176

ImageCredits 183


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