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The spandrels in St Mark's Basilica inspired one of the paper's main metaphors. "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", also known as the "Spandrels paper", [1] is a paper by evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, originally published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences in 1979. [2]
Thomas began writing a monthly essay “Notes of a Biology Watcher” in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1971 while he was at Yale. In 1973 he became the president of the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York. Lewis Thomas published multiple books throughout his career, the first being The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher.
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Microbes and Man is a popularising book by the English microbiologist John Postgate FRS [1] on the role of microorganisms in human society, first published in 1969, and still in print in 2017. Critics called it a "classic" [ 2 ] and "a pleasure to read".
The book was described as well-written in reviews in the mainstream press, [3] [4] but it was severely criticised in scientific publications. Writing in Nature, Coyne (2002) attacked Hooper's "flimsy conspiracy theory [of] ambitious scientists who will ignore the truth for the sake of fame and recognition [by which] she unfairly smears a brilliant naturalist".
Beyond the core biological sciences, the QRB is also an important review journal for scholars in related areas, including policy studies and the history and philosophy of science. A comprehensive section of reviews of new biological books provides educators and researchers with information on the latest publications in the life sciences. [1]
It was established in 1972 under the name Critical Reviews in Biochemistry, obtaining its current name in 1989. [1] [2] It is published by Taylor and Francis Group and the editor-in-chief is Bridget Sheppard. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 7.714. [3] The 2024 impact factor is 6.2. [4]
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