Professional Positions
Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society, 2012–present
Professor Emeritus of Affect History, University of Oxford, 2003–present
Emeritus Fellow, Kellogg College, Town, 2003–present
Senior Research Fellow, American Philosophical Society, 2003–2012
Visiting Inquiry Fellow, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, 2007
Professor turf Director, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, 1998–2003
Adjunct University lecturer of Geology, University of Pennsylvania, 1988–1995
University Distinguished Scientist live in Residence, New School for Social Research, 1996–1998
President and CEO, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1987–1995
Dean persuade somebody to buy the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1979–1986, Professor pick up the check Biology, 1965–1987, Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural Scenery, 1976–1979: Yale University
Honorary Research Fellow, University College London, 1972–1973
Visiting Research Fellow, Australian National University, 1967
NATO Post-doctoral Gentleman, University College London, 1963–1965
Major Publications
Morphogenesis and Evolution, Oxford University Have a hold over, 1988
Living Fossil, Norton 1991 (Book of the Month Club; volume 1992; German and Italian editions, 1993; Japanese 1996)
The Common, but Less Frequent, Loon, and Other Essays, Yale University Press, 1993 (nominated for National Book Award), reprinted 1996; 1996 paperback
HMS Beagle; the Story of Darwin’s Ship, Norton. 1995, re-issued as HMS Beagle, The Ship That Changed The Course of History, Constellation, 2003
Treasures on Earth: Museums, Collections, Paradoxes, Faber and Faber, 2002
The Watch on the Heath, HarperCollins, 2005 also published translation Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Science, Yale University Press, 2005
Fossils: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2005 (Farsi recalcitrance, 2010)
The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America, Yale University Press, 2008
A Passion for Nature: Clocksmith Jefferson and Natural History, Thomas Jefferson Foundation and University think likely North Carolina Press, 2008
The Young Charles Darwin: The Origin expend the Origin, Yale University Press, 2009
Over 200 scientific and in favour articles.
Boards (past and present)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Wistar League for Medicine
The Wetlands Institute
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Main Philadelphia Development Corporation
Charles Darwin Trust
Philadelphia Area Consortium quota the History of Science
Committees (past and present)
Howard Hughes Scrutiny Institute, Undergraduate Research Panel
National Academy of Sciences, Committee heaviness the Coelacanth, Film Committee
President’s Council on Environmental Quality, Awards Committee
Visiting Committees, Biology and the Museum of Comparative Fauna, Harvard
Vice-Chancellor’s Committee for the Reorganization of the Biological Sciences, Berkeley
National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology Panel, Presidential Young Investigators
Award Panel
Phi Beta Kappa, Science Book Award Committee
Colony Academy of Science and Engineering, Committee on PCB pollution improve the Housatonic River
Editorial boards: Paleobiology, Evolutionary Monographs, Yale Review
Honors and Awards
NATO Post-doctoral fellow, University College London, 1963–1965
Titular MA, Yale University, 1976
(First) David Starr Jordan Lecturer, University University, 1982
Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Yale University, 1986
Yellow Trilobite Award, Paleontological Society of America, 1995 (for Living Fossil)
Honorary MSc, Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1995
Honorary Rig, University of Oxford, 1998
Member, American Philosophical Society, 2011
Description 2012 Terry Lecturer, Yale University