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  • Ernst Mayr's The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance was first published in 1982 to widespread acclaim. Three years later, on the appearance of the paperback edition*, W.F. Bynum reassesses the book.

    • W.F. Bynum
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 317, P: 585-586

  • A controversial new reconstruction of Charles Darwin's life suggests his family's campaign against slavery influenced his belief that all humans evolved from a single ancestor, explains W. F. Bynum.

    • W. F. Bynum
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 457, P: 792-793

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    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 325, P: 399

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    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 342, P: 320-321

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    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 347, P: 27-28

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    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 328, P: 483-484

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    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 351, P: 618

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    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 312, P: 173

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    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 363, P: 684

  • A history of early transfusions mixes experiment and ethics with Anglo-French rivalry, finds W. F. Bynum

    • W. F. Bynum
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 472, P: 164-165

  • W. F. Bynum applauds an open-minded exhibition on the history of recreational drugs.

    • W. F. Bynum
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 468, P: 896

  • W. F. Bynum applauds the life of a great educator who fought for parental choice.

    • W. F. Bynum
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 478, P: 318

  • W. F. Bynum enjoys a history of three revolutionary moments in health care.

    • W. F. Bynum
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 471, P: 446-447

  • The inner strengths of psychologist Elliot Aronson are on display in his honest autobiography, finds W. F. Bynum.

    • W. F. Bynum
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 468, P: 32-33

  • Up for commemoration this year are anniversaries of the death of Benjamin Franklin and the births of H. J. Muller, August Möbius and (perhaps) Dom Perignon. There is, too, the advent of the electric chair to 'celebrate'.

    • W. F. Bynum
    • J. L. Heilbron
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 343, P: 11-14

  • 1992's anniversarial celebration encompasses the Old World and the New, by route of Tasmania. The Celsius scale and the revolutionary calendar join other births (Babbage) and deaths (Schrapnel) in this year's cornucopia.

    • J. L. Heilbron
    • W. F. Bynum
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 355, P: 11-14

  • An anniversarial cornucopia featuring rubber gloves, Louis Ilosvay de Nagy-Ilosva, the Eiffel Tower, nuclear fission, the Swedish Academy of Sciences, J. Willard Gibbs, the omega minus meson, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Timothy the tortoise and much, much more.

    • W. F. Bynum
    • J. L. Heilbron
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 337, P: 29-32

  • Understanding the intricacies of colour vision, the origins of the DNA industry and the classification of stars are but three of the scientific birthdays celebrated in this year’s anniversarial feast.

    • J. L. Heilbron
    • W. F. Bynum
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 367, P: 11-14

  • This year's commemorative cornucopia includes sunspots, the cotton gin and some stimulating acronyms. And a new award, 'the year of the anniversary', is introduced.

    • J. L. Heilbron
    • W. F. Bynum
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 361, P: 9-12

  • This year the pneumatic tyre will have been around for 100 years, while NASA reaches the age of 30. Those wishing to join the Anniversary Waltz should read on.

    • W. F. Bynum
    • J. L. Heilbron
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 331, P: 27-30

  • Anniversarial commemorations this year include the discovery of X-rays, the calculation of the position of the undiscovered planet Neptune, the emergence of syphilis and the mandatory serving of lime juice to British sailors.

    • J. L. Heilbron
    • W. F. Bynum
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 373, P: 11-14

  • A celebration of scientific anniversaries featuring dancing frogs' legs, Java Man, the birth of electromagnetism, French metrication, the classification of screws, a treatise on the astrolabe, and much, much more.

    • J. L. Heilbron
    • W. F. Bynum
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 349, P: 9-12