Best Biological
Charles R. Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher whose work in blood transfusion and storage techniques revolutionized modern medicine. During World War II, he developed large-scale blood bank programs for the United States and Great Britain, significantly improving the survival rates...
The artwork “A Thousand Years” presents a meticulously crafted glass display showcasing the lifecycle of insects—primarily maggots and flies—within a decaying organic form. Damien Hirst’s work explores themes of decomposition and natural processes through this confronting visual representation of bi...
Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) was an Italian physicist and physician who discovered bioelectricity, the electrical phenomena in living organisms. In the 1780s, he observed that dissected frog legs would twitch when touched with different metals, mistakenly attributing this to 'animal electricity' unique...
Sherwood Washburn was an American physical anthropologist who taught at institutions including the University of California, Berkeley. He is recognized for his role in establishing the New Physical Anthropology in the 1950s, a paradigm shift that moved the field away from descriptive racial taxonomy...
Sarah Hrdy is an American anthropologist and primatologist known for evolutionary studies of motherhood, alloparenting, and female primates.
This realm is dominated by instinct, survival drives, and immediate physical needs. Life here is raw, driven by the imperative to exist, reproduce, and avoid threat. While it represents a fundamental level of biological existence, it is characterized by limited self-awareness and a focus solely on t...
William M. Bass is an American forensic anthropologist who founded the University of Tennessee Body Farm in 1981 to study human decomposition.
Nina Jablonski is an American anthropologist known for research on skin color evolution, vitamin D, and human adaptation.
Robert Foley is a British biological anthropologist known for work on human evolution and African archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
Jonathan Marks is an American anthropologist known for critiques of genetic determinism and race concepts in biological anthropology.
Alan H. Goodman is an American biological anthropologist known for research on race, health, and the political economy of human biology.
Agustin Fuentes is an American anthropologist known for work on human evolution, primate behavior, and critiques of biological race.
Adrienne Zihlman is an American anthropologist known for primate and human evolution research and for coediting the 1978 volume Woman the Gatherer.
Alison Richard is a British primatologist and anthropologist who led Cambridge as vice-chancellor from 2004 to 2010 and studied Madagascar sifakas.
Alice Roberts is a British biological anthropologist, anatomist, and broadcaster known for public science programs on human evolution.
Kathy Reichs is an American forensic anthropologist and novelist known for work with human remains and for creating the Temperance Brennan series.
Frances Dahlberg is an American anthropologist known for editing Woman the Gatherer in 1981, a key feminist challenge to male-centered evolution models.
