THE fact that this third edition is subdivided into forty-two chapters, six of them new, may provide an indication of the variety of the topics which interest the geneticist. In American literature ...

Theodore Dru Alison “Theo” Cockerell was one of the early 20th-century’s best-known entomologists. Widely considered the foremost expert on bees, he was a prolific writer and researcher, and professor ...

In 1883 a British biologist named Francis Galton combined the roots of the Greek words for "good" and "origin" to create the term "eugenics" for an applied science based on genetics and breeding. The ...

A marker in Indianapolis describes the history of a 1907 Indiana eugenics law (Radharc Images/Alamy). This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the ...

SINCE the beg-inning of the present century, when genetic research passed from the province of the amateur to that of the professional, Prof. Castle has been recognised as one of the most a«tive ...