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2019
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Complicating the story of popular science: John Maynard Smith’s 'Little Penguin' on The Theory of Evolution
Popular science writing has received increasing interest, especially in its relation to professional science. I extend the current scholarly focus from the nineteenth to the twentieth century by providing a microhistory of the early popular writings of evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith (1920–2004). Linking them to the state of evolutionary...Piel, Helen
popular science, science communication, Neo-Darwinism, evolutionary theory, and John Maynard Smith