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Ronald L Numbers is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine and a member of the department of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught for three decades. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including, most recently, Darwinism Comes to America (Harvard University Press, 1998), Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 1999) coedited with John Stenhouse, and When Science and Christianity Meet (University of Chicago Press, 2003) coedited with David Lindberg.