Keith Stewart Thomson, Author . Yale Univ. $25 (313p) ISBN 978-0-300-10793-7
When aspiring naturalist and onetime divinity student Charles Darwin departed on HMS Beagle
in 1831, tensions between religious and scientific accounts of the origins of life had already been building for at least two centuries. Thomson, emeritus...
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Keith Stewart Thomson, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-393-02956-7
The 1938 discovery of a strange, five-foot, 250-pound fish off the coast of South Africa excited the scientific community worldwide. Identified as Latimeria chalumnae , a coelacanth, the fish was previously known only in the fossil record of the...
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Keith Thomson. Yale Univ, $30 (224p) ISBN 978-0-300-20367-7
Thomson, emeritus professor of Natural History at the University of Oxford, explores the well-trod ground of the conflict between religion and science, and does so in a way that is both informative and engaging. Rather than focusing on specific...
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Keith Stewart Thomson, Author, Linda P. Thomson, Illustrator Yale University Press $30 (192p) ISBN 978-0-300-05630-3
Among the topics addressed in this collection are the literature of science, the link between Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin's lost tree and the debate over dinosaur extinction. Biologist Thomson, a columnist for American...
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