As Martin Brookes writes in his engaging Fly: The Unsung Hero of 20th-Century Science, Morgan realized the lowly fruit fly offered his team a chance to study evolution in fast-forward mode.

In the early part of the 20th century, American science fiction tended to present a positive image of a future in which scientific progress had made the world a better place. By mid-century ...

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We see here that the methods of science are often developed to answer ... chapters is that of the conflict between Pearson, the 20th-century survivor of the 19th-century triumvirate who ...

This is the kind of story that lurks in many archives of twentieth-century biology, and it shows how a technique can be pervasive but hard to see as an overall force in science: even before the ...

and in the first quarter of the twentieth century became immensely popular as eugenics. It was presented as a mathematical science that could be used to predict the traits and behaviors of humans ...