He studied physiology at
London University and went on to study history of science and vertebrate palaeontology at
University College London before researching the history of vertebrate palaeontology at
Harvard University.[1] He was awarded a PhD in the area of the Victorian-period context of Darwinian evolution.[2]
The Hot-blooded Dinosaurs: a revolution in palaeontology (1975)
The Ape's Reflexion (1979)
Archetypes and Ancestors (1982)
The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, medicine and reform in radical London (1989). This work won the
Pfizer Award.[5]
Darwin (1991) with
James Moore.[6] This work won the
James Tait Black Prize, the Comisso Prize for biography in Italy, the Watson Davis Prize of the US History of Science Society and the Dingle Prize of the British Society for the History of Science.[7]
Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest (1999)
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doi:
10.1056/NEJM199303183281121.