Department of the History of Science

Dr. Hale will give the 2012 Darwin Day Lecture at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, February 12th, 2012. "Reconsidering Darwinian Ethics: from the Origin of Species to the Descent of Man"

Research Interests

"My research interests focus upon the ways in which the life sciences have contributed to the ways in which we think about what it means to be human. The science of biology has historically had so much to say about what is 'natural' for humans - both what is possible, and what is not; and, as our understandings of biology have changed, so too have our understandings of the limits of human possibility. Just one aspect of this that is pressing today is the way in which we think about genetic inheritance, gene-therapies and genetic-engineering, and how they potentially open up a whole new chapter in the ways in which we think about ourselves..."

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Political Descent	Charles Kingsley & Water Babies	Science & Literature	John Tyndall Correspondence Project

[Interested in undergraduate or graduate research with Dr. Hale? See my research page for further details.]

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