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According to Wikipedia, Adrian John Desmond is an English writer on the history of science and author of books about Charles Darwin. Life He studied physiology at London University and went on to study history of science and vertebrate palaeontology at University College London before researching the history of vertebrate palaeontology at Harvard University. He was awarded a PhD in the area of the Victorian-period context of Darwinian evolution.

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Adrian Desmond's Published Works

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One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought. (1992) (227)
Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist (1991) (213)
The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London (1989) (197)
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin (2004) (169)
The strategy of life. Teleology and mechanics in nineteenth-century German biology (1985) (106)
Huxley: From Devil's Disciple To Evolution's High Priest (1994) (102)
Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins (2009) (100)
Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution (2009) (95)
Artisan Resistance and Evolution in Britain, 1819-1848 (1987) (91)
Redefining the X Axis: “Professionals,” “Amateurs” and the Making of Mid-Victorian Biology – A Progress Report (2001) (90)
The establishment of human antiquity (1985) (76)
The secular ark. Studies in the history of biogeography (1983) (74)
Archetypes and Ancestors-Palaeontology in Victorian London 1850-1875. (1983) (69)
The Making of Institutional Zoology in London 1822–1836: Part I (1985) (49)
Huxley the Devil's Disciple (1998) (48)
Robert E. Grant: The social predicament of a pre-Darwinian transmutationist (1984) (37)
The philosophical naturalists. Themes in early nineteenth-century British biology (1984) (33)
The hot-blooded dinosaurs. A revolution in palaeontology (1977) (30)
Designing the Dinosaur: Richard Owen's Response to Robert Edmond Grant (1979) (22)
The Devil's disciple (1994) (15)
Richard Owen's Reaction to Transmutation in the 1830's (1985) (15)
On the coccosteid arthrodire Millerosteus minor (1974) (14)
Evolution's high priest (1997) (11)
The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volume 1 1821—1836 (1985) (7)
Robert E. Grant's later views on organic development: the Swiney lectures on “Palaeozoology”, 1853–1857 (1984) (7)
Granville Sharp Pattison: anatomist and antagonist 1791–1851 (1988) (6)
The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant (1793-1874): illustrated with a previously unpublished photograph. (2006) (4)
Interpreting the origin of mammals: new approaches to the history of palaeontology (1984) (3)
The Making of Institutional Zoology in London 1822–1836: Part 2 (1985) (2)
Janet Browne, The secular ark. Studies in the history of biogeography , New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 273, illus., £21.00. (1983) (2)
Slugging it out (1987) (1)
Life transformed (1989) (1)
Darwin. London. Penguin) 1991. (1991) (0)
Book reviews: Darwin (1992) (0)
Appendix B. Biographical List of British Medical Men (2019) (0)
4. Nonconformist Anatomy in the Private Schools (2019) (0)
Changing science for the time (1984) (0)
Timothy Lenoir, The strategy of life. Teleology and mechanics in nineteenth-century German biology , Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 314, illus., Dfl.135.00. (1985) (0)
Collections (1996) (0)
Darwin scholars at work: the darwinian heritage. (1987) (0)
Paul H. Barret, Peter J. Gautrey, Sandra Herbert, David Kohn & Sydney Smith (eds). Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836–1844 . London, Cambridge: British Museum (Natural History)/Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. viii + 747. ISBN 0-521-35055-7. £65.00. (1988) (0)
Slavery driven (2009) (0)
6. Science under Siege: Forging an Idealist Comparative Anatomy at the College of Surgeons (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2005) (0)
Bones of history (1987) (0)
Book Reviews-Biographies-Huxley: Evolution's High Priest (1999) (0)
5. Accommodation and Domestication: Dealing with Geoffroy's Anatomy (2019) (0)
F. L. M. Pattison, Granville Sharp Pattison: anatomist and antagonist 1791–1851 , Edinburgh, Canongate, 1987, 8vo, pp. xiv, 284, illus., £12.95. (1988) (0)
2. Importing the New Morphology (2019) (0)
Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith (editors), The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volume 1 1821–1836 , Cambridge University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xxxix, 702, illus., £30.00. (1985) (0)
Philip F. Rehbock, The philosophical naturalists. Themes in early nineteenth-century British biology , Madison, Wis., and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xv, 281, illus., £25.50. (1984) (0)
8. Embryology, Archetypes, and Idealism: New Directions in Comparative Anatomy (2019) (0)
Darwin, Huxley, and the Natural Sciences. (1993) (0)
1. Evolution and Society: Setting the Scene (2019) (0)
9. Grasping the Nettle: Some Concluding Remarks (2019) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2000) (0)
Appendix A. Comparative Anatomy Teachers in London in the 1830s (2019) (0)
Charles Robert Darwin (2004) (0)
T. H. Huxley’s turbulent apprenticeship years: John Charles Cooke and the John Salt scandal (2021) (0)

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Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist