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For Matt, Aisling and Sam
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Copyright © 2010 in text: Joel Levy
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Fight the power. Italian fresco of the 13th century showing Galen and Hippocrates, the fathers of medicine. For over a millennium their authority on matters medical was unchallenged, but in the 16th and 17th centuries a few brave individuals triggered controversy – and bitter feuding – by daring to point out their mistakes.
CONTENTS
Kelvin vs Lyell, Darwin, Huxley, et al.
Part Two: Evolution and Palaeobiology
Kettlewell vs Hooper and Wells
Jacob vs Brown, Morwood, Roberts, et al.
Part Three: Biology and Medicine
Venter vs the Human Genome Project
