Hailed as "one of the most valuable books on the relation of philosophy and science," Alfred North Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, first published in 1920, w

Hermann Joseph Muller (1890-1967) was a member of the early genetics group at Columbia University that developed the chromosome theory of inheritance. T. H. Mor

Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.

People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period.

In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unima