—The biography of Charles Darwin’s cousin allows ‘uncomfortable’ episodes in the history of biology to be explored.— Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a multifaceted author, a polymatist who wrote on many topics, including meteorology, anthropology,...
—A journey through the origins of biology as a scientific discipline beyond myths and ‘founding fathers’.— Throughout the nineteenth century, there was an entire series of events that hastened the establishment of biology as an academic discipline....