Aims and scope

The Journal of the History of Biology is devoted to the history of the biological sciences, with additional interest and concern in the philosophical and social issues confronting biology. The journal invites a diversity of approaches to the history of biology, and welcomes manuscripts dealing with all chronological periods, though it pays particular attention to developments in the modern biological sciences of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The journal serves both the working biologist who needs a fuller understanding of the historical and philosophical basis of their field, as well as the historian of biology interested in the intellectual and cultural processes that shape it.