1986 ALEKSEYEV, Valery Pavlovich (ALEXEEV) (1929 – 1991)
The origin of the human race.
First publication in English by Alekseyev of Homo rudolfensis, primarily known from KNM-ER 1470, discovered in Koobi Fora in the Lake Turkana basin, Kenya. Alekseyev (Alexeev) first proposed the species in 1978, initi…
GMN 7283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9453
1986 BOWLER, Peter J. (1944 – )
Theories of human evolution: A century of debate, 1844-1944.
GMN 10649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12842
1987 CANN, Rebecca Louise (1951 – )
Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution.
Cann's discovery that all living humans are genetically descended from a single African mother, known as Mitochrondrial Eve, who lived
GMN 7256 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9425
1987 APPEL, Toby A. (1945 – )
The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin.
"...no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comp…
GMN 12211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14421
1987 SMITH, Sydney; DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882); BARRETT, Paul H.; KOHN, David; GAUTREY, Peter J.; HERBERT, Sandra
Charles Darwin's notebooks 1836-1844. Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. Transcribed and edited by Paul H. Barrett, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn, Sydney Smith.
GMN 13470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15744
1989 ECCLES, Sir John Carew (1903 – 1997)
Evolution of the brain: Creation of the self.
A pioneering work on the evolution of the human mind. Eccles synthesized comparative anatomy--especially brain anatomy--with evidence from paleontology and archaeology, and brain physiology (especially the physiology …
GMN 7071 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9238
1991 WILLIAMS, George Christopher (1926 – 2010); NESSE, Randolph M. (1948 – )
The dawn of Darwinian medicine.
"While evolution by natural selection has long been a foundation for biomedical science, it has recently gained new power to explain many aspects of disease. This progress results largely from the disciplined applicat…
GMN 8990 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11169
1994 GROENEN, Marc
Pour une histoire de la préhistoire. Le paléolithique.
GMN 6980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9146
1994 WHITE, Timothy Douglas (1950 – ); SUWA, Gen (1954 – ); ASFAW, Berhane (1954 – )
Australopithecus ramidus, a new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia.
Between 1992 and 1994 White and his team discovered the first Ardipithecus ramidus fossils in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia. They named their discovery Ardipithecus ramidus (‘ramid’ means ‘root’ in the Afar langua…
GMN 7276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9446
1994 CAVALLI-SFORZA, Luigi Luca (1922 – ); MENOZZI, Paolo; PIAZZA, Alberto (1941 – )
The history and geography of human genes.
The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…
GMN 8538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10715
1994 EWALD, Paul W. (1953 – )
Evolution of infectious disease.
GMN 8989 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11168
1994 WILLIAMS, George Christopher (1926 – 2010); NESSE, Randolph M. (1948 – )
Why we get sick: The new science of Darwinian medicine.
GMN 8991 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11170
1994 NIKLAS, Karl Joseph (1948 – )
Plant allometry: The scaling of form and process.
The first book to apply allometry— one definition of which is the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole — to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology, and reproduction of pla…
GMN 9187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11368
1995 LEAKEY, Meave G. (1942 – ); FEIBEL, Craig S.
New four-million-year-old hominid species from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya.
In 1965, a research team led by Bryan Patterson from Harvard University discovered a single arm bone (KNM-KP 271) of an early human at Kanapoi in northern Kenya, but without additional fossils Patterson could not conf…
GMN 7278 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9448
1995 ROEBROEKS, Wil (1955 – ); KOLFSCHOTEN, Matthijs van (1952 – )
The earliest occupation of Europe. Proceedings of the European Science Foundation workshop at Tautavel (France) 1993.
The first effort to present summaries of the evidence for earliest occupation in all the regions of Europe including Russia, edited by Roebroeks and van Kolfschoten.
GMN 7525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9697
1995 DELLUC, Brigitte (1936 – ); DELLUC, Gilles (1934 – )
La nutrition préhistorique.
GMN 9929 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12117
1995 NYHART, Lynn K.
Biology takes form: Animal morphology and the German universities 1800-1900.
GMN 11900 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14105
1996 FEDUCCIA, Alan (1943 – )
The origin and evolution of birds.
On the evolution of birds and avian flight. Feduccia is best known for his criticisms of the hypothesis, accepted by many paleontologists, that birds originated from and are deeply nested within Theropoda, and are the…
GMN 9327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11509
1996 BOWLER, Peter J. (1944 – )
Life's splendid drama: Evolutionary biology and the reconstruction of life's ancestry, 1860-1940.
GMN 10646 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12839
1997 SPENCER, Frank (1941 – 1999)
History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia edited by Frank Spencer. 2 vols.
GMN 6978 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9144
1997 CARBONELL, Eudald (1953 – ); ARSUAGA, Juan Luis (1954 – ); BERMÚDEZ DE CASTRO Y RISUEÑO, José María (1952 – ); ET AL
A hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: possible ancestor to Neandertals and modern humans.
Homo antecessor, an extinct human species (or subspecies) dating from 1.2 million to 800,000 years ago, discovered in the Sierra de Atapuerca region of Northern Spain. With A. Rosas, I Martinez and M. Mosquera.
GMN 7285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9455
1998 MOSER, Stephanie
Ancestral images: The iconography of human origins.
GMN 7269 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9439
1998 HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825 – 1895); BLINDERMAN, Charles S. (1931 – 2002); JOYCE, David E.
The Huxley File. Created by Charles Blinderman and David Joyce.
https://mathcs.clarku.edu/huxley/ "Those merely interested in Huxley and scholars engaged in research on him, on Darwinism, on Victorian culture, on the history of science, and on topics such as those noted will find …
GMN 10099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12288
2000 RUSE, Michael (1940 – )
The evolution wars: A guide to the debates.
GMN 9194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11375
2001 SENUT, Brigitte (1954 – ); PICKFORD, Martin (1943 – )
'Millennium Ancestor', a 6-million-year-old bipedal hominid from Kenya - Recent discoveries push back human origins by 1.5 million years.
Living around 6 million years ago, in the Tugen hills region of central Kenya, this species, named Orrorin tugenensis, had small teeth with thick enamel similar to modern humans. It climbed trees, but also probably wa…
GMN 7275 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9445
2001 LEAKEY, Meave G. (1942 – )
New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages.
In 1998 and 1999, working in the Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya, Meave Leakey and her team found a cranium and other fossil remains of a 3.5 million year old hominin with a mixture of features unseen in other e…
GMN 7279 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9449
2002 HARTWIG, Walter Carl (1964 – )
The primate fossil record.
A comprehensive collaborative study edited by Hartwig. Includes an extensive historical bibliography.
GMN 7271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9441
2002 BRUNET, Michel (1940 – )
A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, central Africa.
The first paper on Sahelanthropus tchadensis, dating from between 7 and 6 million years ago in West Central Africa (northern Chad). This species had a combination of ape-like and human-like features. Ape-like elements…
GMN 7274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9444
2002 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882); VAN WYHE, John (1971 – )
Darwin Online. The complete works of Charles Darwin, edited by John van Wyhe.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/AboutUs.html Darwin's Complete Publications Books Origin of Species, Voyage of the Beagle, Descent of Man... Articles Volcanic, Darwin-Wallace paper... Published Letters Life and letters, D…
GMN 8706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10884
2002 GOULD, Stephen Jay (1941 – 2002)
The structure of evolutionary theory.
A "technical book on macroevolution and the historical development of evolutionary theory.[1] The book was twenty years in the making,[2]published just two months before Gould's death.[3] Aimed primarily at profession…
GMN 9188 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11369
2002 –2005 SCHWARTZ, Jeffrey Hugh (1948 – ); TATTERSALL, Ian (1945 – ); HOLLOWAY, Ralph Leslie Jr. (1935 – ); BROADFIELD, Douglas C.; YUAN, Michael S.
The human fossil record. 4 vols.
Vol. 1: Terminology and Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Europe). Vol. 2: Craniodental morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia). Vol. 3: Brain endocasts—the paleoneurological evidence. Vol. 4: Crandiodental mo…
GMN 11243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13440
2002 AIELLO, Leslie Crum (1946 – ); DEAN, M. Christopher
An introduction to human evolutionary anatomy.
GMN 14288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16611
2003 SPOOR, Fred; HUBLIN, Jean-Jacques (1953 – ); ZONNEFELD, Frans W.
The bony labyrinth of Neanderthals.
Computed tomography of the inner ear of 20 Neanderthal specimens directed by Spoor showed that the Neanderthal semicircular canal is subtly distinct in size, shape, and orientation from that of modern humans. With Mar…
GMN 7261 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9430
2004 BROWN, Peter; MORWOOD, Michael John (1950 – 2013)
A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia.
In 2003 a joint Indonesian-Australian research team led by Michael Morwood found LB-1—a nearly complete female skeleton of a tiny human that lived about 80,000 years ago—in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, Indo…
GMN 7286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9456
2004 VAN WYHE, John (1971 – )
Phrenology and the origins of Victorian scientific naturalism.
GMN 10074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12263
2006 GRANT, Peter Raymond (1936 – ); GRANT, Barbara Rosemary (1936 – )
Evolution of character displacement in Darwin’s finches.
Through their more than 40 year study of Darwin's finches on the Island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos, the Grants demonstrated how natural selection can drive rapid changes in body and beak size in response to chan…
GMN 14066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16377
2006 SHUBIN, Neil H. (1960 – ); DAESCHLER, Edward B.; JENKINS, Farish Alston (1940 – 2012)
The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb.
In 2004 Shubin, Daeschler and Jenkins discovered the first well-preserved Tiktaalik fossils in on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. Tiktaalik is a non-tetrapod member of Osteichthyes (bony fish) from the late Devon…
GMN 14084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16395
2006 SHUBIN, Neil H. (1960 – ); DAESCHLER, Edward B.; JENKINS, Farish Alston (1940 – 2012)
A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan.
The authors showed that: 1) This transitional species had a set of features representing a major departure from the pattern in more primitive sarcopterygian fishes. 2) They presented data to indicate that Tiktaalik li…
GMN 14085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16396
2007 O'CONNOR, Anne
Finding time for the old stone age: A History of palaeolithic archaeology and quaternary geology in Britain, 1860-1960.
GMN 7295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9465
2007 AUFRÈRE, Léon (1889 – 1977)
Le cercle d'Abbeville: Paléontologie et préhistoire dans la France romantique. Edition établie par Marie-Françoise Aufrère.
In May 1940 the Boucher de Perthes Museum in Abbeville was destroyed by bombing. However, in the years before the war Leon Aufrère made copies of archives and correspondence, which became the source material for this …
GMN 7296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9466
2007 LARGENT, Mark A.; YOUNG, Christian C.
Evolution and creationism: A documentary and reference guide.
GMN 12351 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14575
2008 RUDWICK, Martin John Spencer (1932 – )
Worlds before Adam: The reconstruction of geohistory in the age of reform.
GMN 7298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9468
2008 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
The Alfred Russel Wallace correspondence project.
http://wallaceletters.info/content/homepage "This on-going project aims to locate, digitise, catalogue, transcribe, interpret and publish the surviving correspondence and other manuscripts of the important 19th centur…
GMN 13653 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15934
2009 MCCALMAN, Iain Duncan (1947 – )
Darwin's armada: Four voyages and the battle for the theory of evolution.
Discusses the voyages by Darwin, Huxley, Hooker and Wallace that informed their key Victorian works on the theory of evolution.
GMN 10098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12287
2009 WHITE, Timothy Douglas (1950 – ); ASFAW, Berhane (1954 – ); HAILE-SELASSIE, Yohannes (1961 – ); BEYENE, Yonas; ET AL
Ardipithecus ramidus and the paleobiology of early hominids.
The authors provide evidence that Ardipithecus may be the beginning of the evolutionary pathway that eventually led to hominids. This pathway was distinct from the evolutionary pathway that led to extant African apes.…
GMN 14083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16394
2010 BERGER, Lee Rogers (1960 – )
Australopithecus sediba: A New Species of Homo-Like Australopith from South Africa.
Matthew Berger, the young son of Lee Berger, discovered the first specimen of Australopithecus sediba, the right clavicle of MH1, on the 15th of August in 2008. This species of Australopithecus dates to about 2 millio…
GMN 7280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9450
2010 PÄÄBO, Svante (1955 – ); KRAUSE, Johannes (1980 – )
The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia.
Svante Pääbo and collaborators reconstructed the genome of the Denisova hominins and announced that they were a new species, that they interbred with our species, and that the DNA results suggest that they had dark ha…
GMN 7290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9460
2010 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project. Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.
https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/projects/joseph-hooker-correspondence-project "Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 – 1911) was a trailblazing botanist and explorer and Kew’s second Director. Detailing plant diversi…
GMN 13652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15933
2011 READER, John
Missing links: In search of human origins.
An entertaining and superbly illustrated, but carefully documented account of the major fossil finds from Neanderthal to Ardipithecus ramidus.
GMN 214.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3957
2012 MCNABB, John
Dissent with modification. Human origins, palaeolithic archaeology and evolutionary anthropology in Britain 1859-1901
GMN 7267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9437
