Journal of the History of Biology

Alfred Russel Wallace’s 1858 Theory of Natural Selection: Reassessing the Evidence for the Place of Discovery, the Source of Inspiration, and the Date of His Essay’s Dispatch to Darwin

Published on 5 Nov 2026

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Did Henry Walter Bates Lie About Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reason for Going to the Amazon in 1848? Reassessing the Early Evolutionary Thought of Wallace and Bates

Published on 5 Nov 2026

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From Messenger to Tool of War: Imperial Japan, Military Pigeon Experiments and the “Instrumentalization” of Life (1919–1945)

Published on 14 Oct 2026

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Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51

Published on 5 Oct 2026

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Laurent Loison:

Published on 8 Sep 2026

Adrienne Mayor,

Published on 24 Aug 2026

When Art Meets Biology: Leonardo da Vinci and the Historiography of Empirical Method

Published on 24 Aug 2026

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Matthew Perkins-McVey,

Published on 18 Aug 2026

Out of Step? Reflections on Writing the History of Molecular Biology

Published on 18 Aug 2026

Editorial Introduction: Practice and the History of Biology

Published on 12 Aug 2026

Geertje Dekkers, , , Trans. Andy Brown

Published on 12 Aug 2026

Between CERN and Cold Spring Harbor: Shaping the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (1967–1978)

Published on 12 Aug 2026

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Animals in Brick and Bronze: Katharine Lane Weems, Biology, and the Harvard Biological Laboratories Building, 1930–1937

Published on 12 Aug 2026

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Reworking Blood Typing in Republican China: Medical Practice, Ethnic Knowledge, and Popular Culture, 1918–1948

Published on 11 Jun 2026

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Assetizing Diversity: Microbial Culture Collections in an Age of Biotechnology, Biodiversity, and Speculative Value Generation (1972–2022)

Published on 12 May 2026

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Culture, Codes, Communities: Culture Collections’ Transformation from Microbial Palaces to Networked Services (1890–1972)

Published on 15 Apr 2026

Matthew Wale: Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Published on 15 Apr 2026

On “Hennig’s Dilemma” and the Post-Systematics Wars

Published on 15 Apr 2026

Announcement

Published on 10 Apr 2026

Philippe Huneman:

Published on 10 Apr 2026

Adrian Desmond,

Published on 10 Apr 2026

The 2026 Everett Mendelsohn Prize

Published on 10 Apr 2026

Tim Harris: In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey through 50 Years of Biotechnology

Published on 10 Apr 2026

Richard G. Delisle, Maurizio Esposito, and David Ceccarelli, eds.

Published on 10 Apr 2026

Helen Anne Curry,

Published on 10 Apr 2026

Of Epistemes and Insects: How and Butterflies Shape Our Understanding of Radiation Risk

Published on 19 Mar 2026

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Why Darwin and Wallace Disagreed About Domestic Varieties

Published on 26 Jan 2026

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Ηοlistic Ecology: Dispelling the Myth of Being Romantic

Published on 13 Jan 2026

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The Rotational Flow of Blood as Described in a 14th Century Persian Manuscript

Published on 8 Jan 2026

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Beyond Controversy? The Promotion and Early Critical Reception of , Fifty Years Later

Published on 8 Jan 2026