Sherrie Lynne Lyons
Appearance
Sherrie Lynne Lyons (born 1947) is an American author, science historian and skeptic.
Lyons is an instructor at the Alden March Bioethics Institute of the Albany College of Medicine.[citation needed]
She is the author of the book Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age (2011), which explores the distinctions between science and pseudoscience.[1] The book contains skeptical information on cryptozoology, parapsychology, phrenology and spiritualism. It is notable for documenting the early scientific debates about sea serpents.[2][3]
Publications
- Thomas Henry Huxley: The Evolution of a Scientist (Prometheus Books, 1999)
- Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age (State University of New York Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-4384-2802-4
- Evolution: The Basics (Routledge, 2011)
From Cells to Organisms: Re-Envisioning Cell Theory University of Toronto Press, 2020
References
- ^ "Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls". State University of New York Press.
- ^ Jones, Greta. (2011). Review of Sherrie Lynne Lyons Species, Serpents, Spirits and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age. Journal of British Studies 50: 1022-1023.
- ^ Pearl, Sharrona. (2010). Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age, by Sherrie Lynne Lyons. Victorian Studies. Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 141-143.