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Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform-an ...

This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race.

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Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his sec...

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This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred...

Charles Darwin's "e;Historical Sketch"e; has appeared as a preface to nearly eve...

Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': hig...