NEWS: Updated August 30, 2010 Find me on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-regal/13/49/606 __________
Dr. Regal has been
elected a Fellow of the prestigious The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active biological society. Founded in 1788, the Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) whose botanical, zoological and library collections have been in its keeping since 1829.
visit the society's web
page http://linnean.org/ My work plagiarized by anti-evolutionist fundamentalists
Salon.Com
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• CNN Why do we need to
believe in Bigfoot?
Me, Darwin and the Werewolves
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WIRED.IT
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In Science
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Listen to my
Naked Science
Radio interview. ___________
New Book:
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• Were Have all the Werewolves
Gone? Fortean Times FT259 (March 2010).
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Entering Dubious
Realms: Grover Krantz, Science and Sasquatch
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My review
of Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort's anti-evolution board game • Discovery Channel (on-line) article on the Georgia Bigfoot, with my comments. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/15/bigfoot-sasquatch-hoax.html
• My
visit to the Creation Mega Conference - 2005
My research: The broad scope of my research concerns the history of human origins. My focus is less on human evolution itself than on an intellectual historical study of how scientific theories are constructed, and then perceived and used in popular culture, religion, and politics for extra-scientific ends. My first book Henry Fairfield Osborn: Race and the Search for the Origins of Man (2002) is an attempt to unravel the complex and contradictory nature of a theory of human evolution which was simultaneously scientific and religious and which was designed to show more than just where the first humans arose, but how American society should be ordered. Human Evolution: a guide to the debates (2004) takes an interdisciplinary approach by including such topics as popular culture, eugenics and creationism along with traditional aspects of evolution history to show the interconnected aspect of human origin studies and how they go beyond finding fossils, isolating DNA, and dating strata. As an historian of science I am particularly interested in the relationship between professional scientists and their amateur counterparts. I write about how the fringe and mainstream interact, co-mingle and argue, whether it is over the creation/evolution debate or American national origins theories. My current writing is an historical analysis of the lives of mainstream scientists--particularly the controversial paleoanthropologist Grover Krantz (1931-2002)--who believed anomalous primates like the Sasquatch and Yeti were real animals, not just relics of folklore or hoaxes. I have been ransacking the archives and libraries of North America and England using long forgotten letters, correspondence, diaries, and notebooks of scientists who researched humanoid monsters. The results of this research will be published in 2011 as Crackpots and Eggheads: Amateurs, Academics, and the Search for Sasquatch by Palgrave-Macmillian.
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