Adrian Desmond

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1. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

2. Adrian Desmond

   Author of Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist, Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest (Helix Books), Archetypes and Ancestors: Palaeontology in Victorian London, 1850-1875

3. Ernst Mayr

   Author of What Evolution Is, The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance, The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology

4. Charles Darwin

   Author of The Voyage of the Beagle, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

5. E. Janet Browne

   Author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging: Volume I of a Biography, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place: Volume II of a Biography, Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)

6. Peter J. Bowler

   Author of Evolution: The History of an Idea, The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900, Life's splendid drama : evolutionary biology and the reconstruction of life's ancestry, 1860-1940

7. Richard Dawkins

   Author of River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Climbing Mount Improbable

8. Steve Jones

   Author of Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated, The Language of the Genes, Darwin's Island

9. Edward J. Larson

   Author of Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (Modern Library Chronicles), Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galápagos Islands, Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution

10. Michael Ruse

    Author of The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw, Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?, Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?

11. M. J. S. Rudwick

    Author of The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology, The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists (Science and Its Conce, Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World

12. John Morrill

    Author of Stuart Britain: A Very Short Introduction, Oliver Cromwell

13. John C. Greene

    Author of The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought, Darwin and the Modern World View, Science, Ideology, and World View: Essays in the History of Evolutionary Ideas

14. Niles Eldredge

    Author of The Triumph of Evolution : And the Failure of Creationism, Darwin: Tree of Life

15. K. D. Reynolds

    Author of Queen Victoria (Very Interesting People)

16. Patrick Collinson

    Author of Elizabeth I (Very Interesting People)

17. Richard S. Westfall

    Author of Isaac Newton (Very Interesting People)

18. Jonathan Parry

    Author of Benjamin Disraeli (Very Interesting People)

19. Kerry Downes

    Author of Christopher Wren (Very Interesting People)

20. Eric Ives

    Author of Henry VIII (Very Interesting People)