“Race” and Science
Yudell shows how scientists, even with the best intentions of modernizing the concept of race to keep up with current evidence, often wound up reinforcing its standard view to help insure its survival.
Garland Allen
Garland Allen is Professor Emeritus of biology at Washington University in St. Louis. A historian and biographer in the history of genetics, eugenics and evolution, Allen is an international leader in the history of eugenics. A Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, he is author of Thomas Hunt Morgan: The Man and His Science (1979, Princeton U. Press), Biology: Scientific Process and Social Issues, with Jeffrey Baker, (2001, Wiley), and A Century of Evo-Devo: The Dialectics of Analysis and Synthesis in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences (2006, MIT Press).
By Garland Allen