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 | | Among his innovations are the Leeuwenhoek specimens (dating from 1674, and marking the dawn of modern biology), human blood coagulation mechanisms, and his theory of plant excretophores, with work on criteria of selection, conquering jet lag, forensic science, forged photographs, pollution and the future of science widely cited in major textbooks. |
 | | His 1996 book on BSE (mad cow disease) became the standard reference work for politicians and journalists, and in 2000 he published the first History of the Institute of Biology. |
 | | Journal of the History of Biology, summer, 1986. |
| www.brianjford.com /wcontau1.htm (1443 words) |
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