John C. Greene (historian)
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) 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.