John Lynch

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• “Preparing teachers to prepare students for post-secondary science: Thoughts from of a workshop about evolution in the classroom,” Journal of Effective Teaching 9(2): 68–79 (with CM Schrein, SK Brem, GE Marchant, K Schedler, MA Spencer, CJ Kazilek, and MG Coulombe) [2009]
• “Risk Factors Associated With Deformational Plagiocephaly” Pediatrics 124(6): e1126-33. (with J Joganic, T Littlefield & B Verrelli) [2009]
• “Does Science Education Need The History of Science?” Isis 99(2): 322–330 (with G Gooday, KG Wilson, and CK Barsky) [2008]
• “‘Scriptural Geology’, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Contested Authority in Nineteenth-Century British Science” in D. Clifford et al. (eds.) Repositioning Victorian Sciences: Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Thinking, London: Anthem Press, pp. 131 – 141 [2006]
• “Diagnostic Differences in Mandibular P4 Shape Between Neandertals and Anatomically Modern Humans” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 126: 268–277 (with SE Bailey) [2005]
• “Variation in early hominin temporal bone morphology and its implications for species diversity” Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 60(2): 1-5 [2005]
• “Morphometrics and hominid phylogeny: support for a chimp-human clade and differentiation among great ape subspecies” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) 101(13): 4356-4360 (with C Lockwood and W Kimbel) [2004]
• “Quantifying temporal bone morphology of great apes and humans: an approach using geometric morphometrics” Journal of Anatomy 201: 447-464 (with CA Lockwood and WH Kimbel) [2002]
• “Use of geometric morphometrics to differentiate Gila (Cyprinidae) within the Upper Colorado River Basin” Copeia 2001(2): 389-400 (with ME Douglas, MR Douglas and DM McElroy) [2001]
• “Peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) in Irish quarries: current status and factors influencing occupancy” Bird Study (with NA Moore, PF Kelly & FA Lang) [1997]
• “Craniometric variation in the Eurasian badger (Meles meles L.)” Journal of Zoology, London 242: 31-44 (with R Whelan, AI Il Fituri & TJ Hayden) [1997]
• “Sexual dimorphism in the craniofacial skeleton of modern humans” pp 407-414 in Marcus, LF et al. (eds.) Advances in Morphometrics, Plenum Press, New York. (with CG Wood) [1996]
• “Variation in cranial form and sexual dimorphism among five European populations of the otter Lutra lutra (L.)” Journal of Zoology, London 238: 81-96 (with JWH Conroy, AC Kitchener, D Jefferies & TJ Hayden) [1996]
• “Sexual dimorphism in cranial size and shape among red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from north-east Ireland” Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 96B(1): 21-26 [1996]
• “Postglacial colonisation of Ireland by mustelids, with particular reference to the badger (Meles meles)” Journal of Biogeography 23: 179-185 [1996]
• “Geometric morphometrics in primatology: craniofacial variation in Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes” Folia Primatologica 67: 15-39 (with CG Wood & S Luboga) [1996]
• “Genetic influences on cranial form: variation among ranch and feral American mink Mustela vison (Mammalia: Mustelidae)” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 55: 293-307 (with TJ Hayden) [1995]
• “Antler growth and morphology in a feral sika deer (Cervus nippon) population in Killarney, Ireland” Journal of Zoology, London 232: 21-35 (with G O’Corry-Crowe & TJ Hayden) [1994]
• “Changes in the skull morphology of the Arctic wolf, Canis lupus arctos, during the twentieth century” Journal of Zoology, London 233: 19-36 (with J Clutton-Brock & AC Kitchener) [1994]
• “Morphometric and genetic variation among badger populations” pp 94-107 in Hayden, T.J. (ed.) The Badger, Royal Irish Academy: Dublin (with G O’Corry-Crowe, CL Cheeseman, S Harris, EJ Duke & TJ Hayden) [1993]
• “Cranial form and sexual dimorphism in the Irish otter (Lutra lutra L.)” Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 93B: 97-105 (with WM O’ Sullivan) [1993]
• “Multivariate morphometrics and the biogeography of Irish mustelids” pp 25-34 in Costello, M.J. and Kelly, K.S. (eds.) Irish Biogeography: Past, Present and Future, Irish Biogeographical Society: Dublin (with TJ Hayden) [1993]
• “A case of twin fetuses in a sika hind (Cervus nippon) from County Wicklow, Ireland” Deer 8: 437-439  (with T Clinton, TJ Hayden & P Murphy) [1992]

Edited Volumes

• Arthur Conan Doyle, The Coming of the Fairies, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006
• Agassiz on Evolution. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2003
• Creationism and Scriptural Geology. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002
• Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection, British Responses, 1859-1871. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2001
• Vestiges and the Debate Before Darwin. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2000

Other Publications

• “Some comments on ‘Social Media Trends in Medical History’” Medical History 59(1): 150-154. [2015]
• “Introduction to ‘Popularizing and Policing Darwinism: 1859 – 1900″ Science and Education 21(7): 935-936 [2012]
• The State of State Science Standards 2012. Thomas B. Fordham Institute (with LS Lerner, U Goodenough, M Schwartz, R Schwartz & PR Gross)  [2012]
• Commentary and Feedback on Draft 1 of the Next Generation Science Standards. Thomas B.. Fordham Institute (with PR Gross, LS Lerner, M. Schwartz, R Schwartz & WS Wilson) [2012]
• “Historians and Contemporary Anti-Evolutionism” Newsletter of the History of Science Society 38(4): 14-16 [2009]
• “In Reply [to Richard Weikart and Steve Fuller]“ Isis 100(1): 115–116. [2009]
• “Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich” in T. Flynn (ed.) New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, New York: Prometheus Books [2007]
• “Scientists, Unbelief among” in T. Flynn (ed.) New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, New York: Prometheus Books (with M Young) [2007]
• “Medawar, Peter Brian ” in N. Koertge (ed.) The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol 5: 85-90. New York: Gale
• “Medawar, Peter Brian” in S. Brown (ed.) The Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 673–674  [2005]
• “Pirie, Norman Wingate” in S. Brown (ed.) The Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 783–784 [2005]
• “Sherrington, Charles Scott” in S. Brown (ed.) The Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 948–949 [2005]
• “Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth” in S. Brown (ed.) The Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 1042-1043 [2005]
• “Chambers, Robert” in B. Lightman (ed.) The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Scientists, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, pp. 404–409 [2003]
• “Mivart, St. George Jackson” in B. Lightman (ed.) The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Scientists, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, pp. 1411–141[2003]
• “Biological Sciences, History of” in David Loades (ed.) The Readers Guide to British History, London: Fitzroy-Dearborn.
• “Sedgwick, Adam” in The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Philosophers, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, pp. 992 – 995. [2002]
• “Chambers, Robert” in The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Philosophers, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, pp. 237 – 241
• “A morphometric comparison of the skulls of fossil British and extant European beavers, Castor fiber” Scottish Natural Heritage Review 127: 1–31 (with AC Kitchener) [2000]
• “Conservation implications of hybridisation between mustelids and their domesticated counterparts: the example of polecats (Mustela putorius) and feral ferrets (M. p. furo) in Britain” Small Carnivore Conservation 13: 17-18 [1995]
• “Morphometric variation in the badger (Meles meles): clinal variation in cranial size and shape across Eurasia” Small Carnivore Conservation 10: 6-7 [1994]
• "A summary of ongoing research into morphometric variation among mustelids” Small Carnivore Conservation 8: 16-17 [1993]
• “Morphological and genetic discriminants of European wildcats, Felis silvestris, in Great Britain” Council of Europe Environmental Encounters Series 16: 72-74 (with AC Kitchener & S McOrist) [1993]

Book Reviews

• Moran, “American Genesis” Isis 107(2): 408-409
• Ruse, “The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought” and Johnson, “Darwin: Portrait of a Genius” Reports of the National Center for Science Education 35(2)
• Russell, “Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth” Isis 104(2): 422-423.
• Schwartz, “Darwin’s Disciple. George John Romanes, A Life in Letters” Reports of the National Center for Science Education 33(1)
•  Wiker & Witt, “A Meaningful World” Reports of the National Center for Science Education 31(6)
• Rupke, “Richard Owen. Biology Without Darwin” Isis 102(2): 374-375
• “The Voyage that Shook The World” Reports of the National Center for Science Education 30(6): 22–24 (with J Lippard)
• Wiker, “The Darwin Myth” Journal of the History of Biology 43: 609 – 611
• Silverton, “99% Ape: How Evolution Adds Up.” Journal of the History of Biology 42(3): 617–619
• Livingstone, “Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion & The Politics of Human Origins.” British Journal for the History of Science 42(3): 435–437 
• Smith & Arnott, “The Genius of Erasmus Darwin” Journal of the History of Biology 41(4): 766–768
• Stoczkowski “Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 127(4): 494–495
• Ruse “The Evolution-Creation Struggle” Nature Cell Biology 7(12): 1050
• Dean & Wood “A Digital Radiographic Atlas of Great Apes Skull and Dentition” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128(4): 915 
• Forsdyke “The Origin of Species Revisited” Journal of the History of Biology 37: 211-212
• Bowler “Reconciling Science and Religion” and Brooke et al, “Science in Theistic Contexts” Journal of the History of Biology 35:
• Alter, “Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race and Theology in the Nineteenth Century” Isis 92(1): 97
• Ferngren, “The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia” Journal of the History of Biology 34: 225–226
• Gould, “Rocks of Ages” and Conkin, “When All the Gods Trembled” Journal of the History of Biology 33(3): 420 – 422
• Hayward, “The Creation/Evolution Controversy: An Annotated Bibliography” and Smout, “The Creation/Evolution Controversy: A Battle for Cultural Power” Journal of the History of Biology 32(3): 573 – 575