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Keith Stewart Thomson

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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.

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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]
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