John C. Greene | |
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| Born | March 5, 1917 |
| Died | November 12, 2008 (aged 91) |
| Known for | The Death of Adam; Debating Darwin; American Science in the Age of Jefferson |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | University of South Dakota (BA 1938) Harvard University (MA 1939; PhD 1952) |
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| Discipline | Historian of science |
| Sub-discipline | History of evolutionary thought American history |
| Institutions | University of Chicago University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Kansas University of Connecticut |
John Colton Greene (March 5, 1917, Indianapolis, Indiana – November 12, 2008, Pacific Grove, California)[1] was an American historian of science. He is known for his influential study of the history of evolutionary thought, The Death of Adam, for academic controversies with Neo-Darwinians, particularly Ernst Mayr, collected in Debating Darwin, and for his studies of early American science, particularly American Science in the Age of Jefferson.