Hidden Histories of Science
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Exploring the ways that science is influenced by culture, Hidden Histories of Science highlights the misleading images that have distorted our view of the history of life. The contributors — Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel J. Kevles, R. C. Lewontin, Jonathan Miller, and Oliver Sacks — consider the neglect of useful ideas that do not fit the current intellectual fashion in science.
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