Department of the History of Science

Dr. Hale talks about the significance of Darwin's Origin of Species, first published 150 years ago in November 1859. Hale is co-Chair of the OU Darwin 2009 committee.	Dr. Piers J. Hale and Dr. Barry Weaver in an April 2009 interview for Fox News regarding the invesitgation by State Representatives of the visit to campus of Richard Dawkins.

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..."

Biology & Utopia	Charles Kingsley & Water Babies	Science & Literature	John Tyndall Correspondence Project

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