Publications

Books:
Piers J. Hale & Jonathan Smith, (eds.) Negotiating Boundaries.  Vol.1 in the series Victorian Science and Literature. General editors: Bernard Lightman & Gowan Dawson, (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011).
ISBN 978-1-84893-091-9
introductory essay:[] sample pages: []

Refereed articles and book chapters:
"Darwin's Other Bulldog: Charles Kingsley and the popularization of evolution in England", Science and Education, (2011), DOI: 10.1007/s11191-011-9414-8. []

"William Morris, Human Nature, and the Biology of Utopia", in Phillippa Bennett & Rosie Miles (eds.), William Morris in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010, pp.107-127. []

"Of Mice and Men: Evolution and the Socialist Utopia.  H.G. Wells, William Morris and George Bernard Shaw." Journal of the History of Biology. 43, 1, 2010, pp.17-66. Published online January 29th 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s10739-009-9177-0. []

"Water Babies: An Evolutionary Fairy Tale." Endeavour, Vol. 32, No.4, 2008, pp.141-46. co-authored with John Beatty. []

"The Search for Purpose in a Post-Darwinian Universe: George Bernard Shaw, ‘Creative Evolution’, and Shavian Eugenics: ‘The Dark Side of the Force’ ".  History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 28 (2006), 191-214. []

"Labor and the human relationship with nature:  The naturalization of politics in the work of Thomas Henry Huxley, Herbert George Wells, and William Morris", Journal of the History of Biology, 36, 2, (2003): 249-284. []

Forthcoming:

"Debating Waste, Nature and Justice in Nineteenth-Century England: Herbert Spencer, Thomas Huxley, and William Morris." in (eds.), John F.M. Clark & John Scanlon. World Turned Inside Out. Modernity and Waste. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (forthcoming, 2012).

In Progress:

“Monkeys into Men and Men into Monkeys: Caprice and Contingency in Charles Kingsley’s Water Babies.”

“A Liberal Descent. Charles Darwin and the politics of evolution.”

With John Beatty, “Charles Kingsley’s Water Babies: Embryology and Education”

Biographic Dictionary Entries:
“Clarke, Louisa” in Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Scientists. Ed. Bernard Lightman. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum Press, 2004, vol. 1, 436-7.
“Veitch, James” v. 4, 2068-9
“Wilson, William” v. 4, 2178-9.

Book Reviews:

David Sloan Wilson, The Neighborhood Project, in Quarterly Review of Biology,
(3000 word lead essay review), (forthcoming June 2012).

Lee Dugatkin, Prince of Evolution, in Journal of the History of Biology, (in press).

Ian Hesketh, Of Apes and Ancestors, in Victorian Review, 37:1, 2012.

David Sloan Wilson, The Neighborhood Project, in Journal of the History of Biology, 45(1), 2012: 171-3, published online 22 December 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s10739-011-9315-3.

William Brown & Andrew C. Fabian, Darwin, in Quarterly Review of Biology, 86(4), (December), 2011:334-5.

Mark E. Borrello, Evolutionary Restraints, in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 33, 3, (2011): 418-21.

David N. Reznick, The Origin Then and Now.  An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species.
In Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 31.2, 6.2, (Mar-Apr 2011).

Krishna Dronamraju, (ed.,) What I Require from Life.  Writings on Science and Life from J.B.S. Haldane. in Journal of the History of Biology, Vol.42, No.2, May 2009.  pp. 381-385.

Keith Thomson, The Young Charles Darwin in Quarterly Review of Biology, 84(3), 2009:281-2.

Michael W. Taylor, The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer. in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 30, 2008, 109-10.

John Glandening, The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels.  An Entangled Bank. in Journal of the History of Biology, 2008, 41, 2,: 394-8.

Maxine Scwartz, How the Cows Turned Mad, in Journal of the History of Biology, 2006, 39: 407-424.

Spencer R. Weart, The Discovery of Global Warming, in British Journal for the History of Science.  March 2006, 39, 1: 149-50.

Douglas R. Weiner, Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation and Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia, in British Journal for the History of Science, June 2004, 37, 2: 219-20.

Stuart McCook, States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940, in British Journal for the History of Science, June 2004, 37, 2: 215-16

Pedar Anker, Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945, in British Journal for the History of Science, June 2003, 36, 2: 248-50

Charles Elton, Animal Ecology, in British Journal for the History of Science, 2002, 35, 3: 373-4.

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