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Adrian Desmond

18 works· latest 2022· 1 institutionscluster: provisional

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Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

Yale University Press eBooks·2022·2 authors·chapter

265citations

T. H. Huxley’s turbulent apprenticeship years: John Charles Cooke and the John Salt scandal

Archives of Natural History·2021·2 authors

30citations

Redefining the X Axis: “Professionals,” “Amateurs” and the Making of Mid-Victorian Biology – A Progress Report

Journal of the History of Biology·2001·1 author

81citations

Huxley the Devil's Disciple

·1998·2 authors·book

130citations

The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London.

The American Historical Review·1995·2 authors·other

36citations

The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine and Reform in Radical London

Anthropologica·1992·2 authors

24citations

Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist

·1991·2 authors·book

330citations

The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London.

Systematic Zoology·1990·2 authors

62citations

The Politics of Evolution

University of Chicago Press eBooks·1990·1 author·book

99citations

Artisan Resistance and Evolution in Britain, 1819-1848

Osiris·1987·1 author

141citations

The Making of Institutional Zoology in London 1822–1836: Part I

History of Science·1985·1 author

62citations

The strategy of life. Teleology and mechanics in nineteenth-century German biology

Europe PMC (PubMed Central)·1985·1 author·Open access

445citations

Richard Owen's Reaction to Transmutation in the 1830's

The British Journal for the History of Science·1985·1 author

55citations

Archetypes and Ancestors: Palaeontology in Victorian London, 1850-1875

The American Historical Review·1985·2 authors·other

66citations

Interpreting the origin of mammals: new approaches to the history of palaeontology

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society·1984·1 author

35citations

Robert E. Grant: The social predicament of a pre-Darwinian transmutationist

Journal of the History of Biology·1984·1 author

39citations

Archetypes and Ancestors-Palaeontology in Victorian London 1850-1875.

Systematic Zoology·1983·2 authors

69citations

Designing the Dinosaur: Richard Owen's Response to Robert Edmond Grant

Isis·1979·1 author

62citations