Keith Stewart Thomson

Keith Stewart Thomson (born 1938; B.SC. Birmingham, AM, PH.D. Harvard) was from 2003–2012 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.

Bibliography

• Thomson, Keith Stewart (1988). Morphogenesis and evolution. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504912-8. 
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (1991). Living fossil: the story of the coelacanth. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-30868-5. 
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (1993). The common but less frequent loon and other essays. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-06654-6. 
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (1995). HMS Beagle: the story of Darwin's ship. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-03778-9. ^[6]
• 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. ^[7]
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (2007). Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-12600-X. 
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (2008). The legacy of the Mastodon: the golden age of fossils in America. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-11704-3. ^[8]
• Thomson, Keith Stewart (2009). The Young Charles Darwin. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-13608-0. ^[9]

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