Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Ancient Greece and Rome -- The Facts. The Birth of Biology -- Overview of Ancient Greek and Roman Biological Sciences -- Hippocratic Medicine ; Aristotle -- Galen’s ...

Harvard professor emeritus Everett I. Mendelsohn stands on the Great Wall of China in July 2005. Mendelsohn, known for his pioneering work studying the history of biology and the relationship between ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. As part of her research for her Smithsonian postdoctoral fellowship project, in 1997 Catherine A. Christen conducted oral history interviews with ...

Overall, I find Gary Freeman's review of the book I edited, Defining Biology, (The Scientist, November 17, 1986) to be a reasonable one that endorses the value of these essays from the 1890s. I do ...

Christina Riehl, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will present “Biology and Conservation of Tropical Birds: Linking Life History to Ecology” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online ...

Tree rings hold clues about ancient solar storms. New research shows tree growth and carbon storage can shift those signals across years.

Georgetown University announced the three inaugural winners of the Magis Prize, which awards $100,000 in research funding and two semesters of leave to associate professors who demonstrate exceptional ...

Ernest Everett Just was an experimental embryologist, who conducted simple – yet elegant – experiments on marine invertebrates to demonstrate that the egg surface, or ectoplasm, plays a key role in ...

The Natural History Museum is marking a milestone anniversary this year for one of its most popular community events as the ...

A research trip to Antarctica uncovered marine life that hadn't been seen before in one of the world's most remote spots.