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Keith Stewart Thomson
Born (1938-09-27 ) September 27, 1938 (age 85) Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Alma mater University of Birmingham Harvard University Occupation(s) Natural history professor, author
Keith Stewart Thomson (born 1938; B.SC. Birmingham, AM, Ph.D. Harvard) was from 2003 to 2012 a senior research fellow of the
American Philosophical Society
[1] and is, starting in 2012, the Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society
[2] and is an emeritus professor of natural history at the
University of Oxford .
[3] He was appointed director of the
Oxford University Museum of Natural History in July 1998.
[4] In 1987 he was appointed president of the
Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He had earlier been a dean at
Yale University and director of Yale's
Peabody Museum of Natural History .
[5]
He is the author of several books and essays that deal with
paleontology , the
history of science and
evolution .
Bibliography
Thomson, Keith Stewart (1988).
Morphogenesis and evolution . Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-504912-8 .
[6]
[7]
Thomson, Keith Stewart (1991).
Living fossil: the story of the coelacanth . New York: W.W. Norton.
ISBN
0-393-30868-5 .
[8]
Thomson, Keith Stewart (1993).
The common but less frequent loon and other essays . New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.
ISBN
0-300-06654-6 .
[9]
Thomson, Keith Stewart (1995). HMS Beagle: the story of Darwin's ship . New York: W.W. Norton.
ISBN
0-393-03778-9 .
[10]
Thomson, Keith Stewart (2002). Treasures on Earth: Museums, Collections and Paradoxes . London: Faber and Faber.
ISBN
0-571-21295-6 .
Thomson, Keith Stewart (2005).
Fossils: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-280504-1 .
[11]
Thomson, Keith Stewart (2007).
Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature . New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0-300-12600-6 .
[12]
[13]
[14]
Thomson, Keith Stewart (2008).
The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America . New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0-300-11704-2 .
[15]
Thomson, Keith Stewart (2009).
The Young Charles Darwin . New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0-300-13608-1 .
[16]
Thomson, Keith (2012).
Jefferson's Shadow . Yale University Press.
ISBN
978-0300187403 .
[17]
References
^
Keith S. Thomson – Bio
^
Keith Stewart Thomson, Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society
^
"American Scientist Online" .
^
"DIRECTORSHIP OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY" .
Oxford University Gazette . 15 January 1998.
^
"Getting Its Man: Science Academy at Last has a New President" .
Philadelphia Inquirer . January 21, 1987. pp. D01.
^ Erwin, Douglas H. (1990). "Variations on a Theme". Paleobiology . 16 (1): 96–101.
doi :
10.1017/s0094837300009763 .
JSTOR
2400936 .
^ Hall, Brian K. (1989). "The Shape of Things to Come". Evolution . 43 (7): 1571–1573.
doi :
10.2307/2409473 .
JSTOR
2409473 .
^ Musick, J. A. (1993). "Review of Living Fossil. The Story of the Coelacanth". Copeia . 1993 (3): 897–899.
doi :
10.2307/1447265 .
JSTOR
1447265 .
^ van Berkum, Fredrica H. (1995). "Review of The Common But Less Frequent Loon and Other Essays by Keith Stewart Thomson". The Quarterly Review of Biology . 70 (1). University of Chicago Press: 63–64.
doi :
10.1086/418873 .
ISSN
0033-5770 .
^ Thomson, Keith (May–June 2014).
"H.M.S. Beagle , 1820–1870; (reprint of 1975 article)" . American Scientist .
^ Demoncheaux, Eric (Autumn 2007).
"Review of Fossils: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Thomson and Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction by David Norman" . Science in School (6).
^ Roberts, Jon H. (2006). "Review of Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature". Journal of the Early Republic . 26 (4): 704–707.
doi :
10.1353/jer.2006.0076 .
JSTOR
30043469 .
S2CID
144143000 .
^ Marshall, Wallace W. (2006). "Review of Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature". Journal of the History of Biology . 39 (2): 407–410.
doi :
10.1007/s10739-006-0009-1 .
JSTOR
4332019 .
S2CID
189843333 .
^ Califano, Joseph J. (2007). "Review of Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature". The Review of Metaphysics . 60 (4): 887–889.
JSTOR
20130879 .
^ Anderson, Lyall I. (2009).
"Review: Legacy of the Mastodon by K. Thomson" . Geol. Mag . 146 (6): 941–942.
doi :
10.1017/s0016756809006049 .
^ Laporte, Léo F. (January–April 2010).
"Review: The Young Charles Darwin by Keith Thomson" . Reports of the National Center for Science Education (1–2): 27–28.
^ Witkin, Joan (2013). "Review of Jefferson's Shadow: The Story of His Science". Journal of the Early Republic . 33 (3): 563–565.
doi :
10.1353/jer.2013.0046 .
JSTOR
24487057 .
S2CID
145214471 .
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