john m. lynch's publications

page updated: January 4, 2010

2009

"Risk Factors Associated With Deformational Plagiocephaly" Pediatrics 2009. (with J Joganic, T Littlefield & B Verrelli)

“Historians and Contemporary Anti-Evolutionism” Newsletter of the History of Science Society 38(4): 14 -16.

“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)

Review of “Livingstone, Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion & The Politics of Human Origins.” British Journal for the History of Science. 42(3): 435 – 437.

Review of “Silverton, 99% Ape: How Evolution Adds Up.” Journal of the History of Biology 42(3): 617 – 619.

Response to Steve Fuller and Richard Weikart, Isis 100(1): 115 - 116 (with G Gooday). [PDF File]

2008

Review of Smith & Arnott "The Genius of Erasmus Darwin" Journal of the History of Biology 41(4): 766 - 768. [PDF File]

"Does Science Education Need The History of Science?" Isis 99(2): 322 - 330 (with G Gooday). [PDF File]

“Pithecophobes of the World, Unite!” in R. Cartwright (ed.) The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2007, Chapel Hill, NC: Lulu, pp. 268 – 280.

2007

"Medawar, Peter Brian " in N. Koertge (ed.) The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol 5: 85-90. New York: Gale. [PDF File]

“Scientists, Unbelief among” in T. Flynn (ed.) New Encyclopedia of Unbelief. New York: Prometheus Books (with M Young). [PDF File]

“Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich” in T. Flynn (ed.) New Encyclopedia of Unbelief. New York: Prometheus Books. [PDF File]

 “Darwin, Marx and Bad Scholarship”  in B. Zibkovic (ed.) The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006, Chapel Hill, NC: Lulu, pp. 245 – 248.

2006

"Introduction" in Arthur Conan Doyle The Coming of the Fairies, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press / Bison Books, pp v - xxii. [PDF File]

"'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. [PDF File]

2005

"Diagnostic Differences in Mandibular P4 Shape Between Neandertals and Anatomically Modern Humans." American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 126: 268 - 277. (with SE Bailey) [pubmed]

"Variation in early hominin temporal bone morphology and its implications for species diversity." Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, (with CA Lockwood and WH Kimbel)

Review of Dean & Wood "A Digital Radiographic Atlas of Great Apes Skull and Dentition" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128(4): 915

Review of Ruse "The Evolution-Creation Struggle" Nature Cell Biology 7(12): 1050. [PDF File]

Review of Stoczkowski "Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture" American Journal of Physical Anthropology 127(4): 494 - 495. [PDF File]

"Medawar, Peter Brian" in S. Brown (ed.) The Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 673 - 674. [PDF File]

"Pirie, Norman Wingate" in S. Brown (ed.) The Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 783 - 784. [PDF File]

"Sherrington, Charles Scott" in S. Brown (ed.) The Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 948 - 949. [PDF File]

"Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth" in S. Brown (ed.) The Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 1042 -1043. [PDF File]

2004

"Chambers, Robert" in B. Lightman (ed.) The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Scientists. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, pp. 404 - 409.

"Mivart, St. George Jackson" in B. Lightman (ed.) The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Scientists. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, pp. 1411 - 1415.

Review of Forsdyke "The Origin of Species Revisited". Journal of the History of Biology 37: 211-212

"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) [pubmed] [PDF File]

Lockwood, C.A., Kimbel, W.H. and Lynch, J.M. Phylogenetic analysis of extant hominids using temporal bone morphometrics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 123(S38): 137.

2003

"Introduction" in J.M. Lynch (ed.), Agassiz on Evolution; Vol 1, Essay on Classification, Bristol: Thoemmes Press. [PDF File] [review in JHB]

"Biological Sciences, History of" in David Loades (ed) The Readers Guide to British History. London: Fitzroy-Dearborn. [PDF File]

"Temporal bone morphology and earliest Homo." American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 117(S34): 102-103 (with C Lockwood and W Kimbel) [abstract]

2002

"Sedgwick, Adam" in The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, pp. 992 - 995.

"Chambers, Robert" in The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, pp. 237 - 241.

"Introduction" in J.M. Lynch (ed.), Creationism and Scriptural Geology, Bristol: Thoemmes Press.

Review of Bowler "Reconciling Science and Religion" and Brooke et al, "Science in Theistic Contexts". Journal of the History of Biology 35:

"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) [pubmed]

2001

"Introduction" in J.M. Lynch (ed.), Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, British Responses, 1859-1871, Bristol: Thoemmes Press.

Review of Ferngren, "The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia" Journal of the History of Biology, 34: 225 - 226.

Review of Alter, "Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race and Theology in the Nineteenth Century" Isis 92(1): 97

"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) [abstract]

2000

"Things must keep their proper places: Adam Sedgwick reponds to Vestiges" in Adam Sedgwick A Discourse on the Studies of the University. (5th edition, J.M. Lynch, ed.) Bristol: Thoemmes Press.

"Introduction" in J.M. Lynch (ed.), Vestiges and the Debate Before Darwin. Volume I: Selected Periodical Reviews, 1844-54. Bristol: Thoemmes Press.

"Seeking a proper audience" in William Whewell, Indications of the Creator (2nd edition, J.M. Lynch, ed.) Bristol: Thoemmes Press.

"The Battle of Evidences: the fossil record speaks" in Hugh Miller, Footprints of the Creator. (J.M. Lynch, ed.) Bristol: Thoemmes Press.

Review of Gould, "Rocks of Ages" and Conkin, "When All the Gods Trembled" Journal of the History of Biology 33(3): 420 - 422.

"Establishing the polarity of temporal bone morphology in African hominoids using geometric morphometrics." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111(S30): 212. (with CA Lockwood & WH Kimbel). [abstract]

"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)

1999

Review of 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.

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) [abstract]

“Peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) in Irish quarries: current status and factors influencing occupancy.” Bird Study (with NA Moore, PF Kelly & FA Lang) [abstract]

1996

 

“Geometric morphometrics in primatology: craniofacial variation in Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes.” Folia Primatologica 67:15-39. (with CG Wood & S Luboga) [pubmed]

“Postglacial colonisation of Ireland by mustelids, with particular reference to the badger (Meles meles).” Journal of Biogeography 23: 179-185. [abstract]

“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. [abstract]

“Sexual dimorphism in the craniofacial skeleton of modern humans.” pp 407-414 in Marcus, L.F.; Corti, M.; Loy, A.; Slice, D. and Naylor, G.J.P. (eds.) Advances in Morphometrics. Plenum Press, New York. (with CG Wood) [abstract]

“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) [abstract]

1995

 

“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) [abstract]

“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.

“Geometric analysis of morphometric variation in Colorado River chub (Gila cypha and G. robusta). Proceedings of the Desert Fishes Council XXVI: 102. (with DM McElroy & ME Douglas)

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) [abstract]

“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) [abstract]

“Morphometric variation in the badger (Meles meles): clinal variation in cranial size and shape across Eurasia.” Small Carnivore Conservation 10: 6-7.

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)

“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) [abstract]

“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) [abstract]

“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)

“A summary of ongoing research into morphometric variation among mustelids.” Small Carnivore Conservation 8: 16-17.

1992

 

“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)