Darwin Lectures

1960

Dr C E Ford

The Cytogenetics of Sex in Man

1961

Dr J M Tanner

Human Growth in its Comparative and Evolutionary Aspects

1962

Prof A S Parkes

Change and Control in Human Populations

1964

Prof P B Medawar

Natural Selection and the Concept of Fitness

1965

Prof L S Penrose

Congenital Malformation in Man and Natural Selection

1966

Dr O G Edholm

The Physiology of Human Adaptation

1967

Prof E C Amoroso

The Evolution of Viviparity

1968

Prof S S Weiner

Human Adaptability: Its World Wide Study within the International Biological Programme

1969

Prof G Pontecorvo

The Population Genetics of Enzymes and Proteins

1970

Dr D M Potts

Against Nature: The Use and Misuse of Birth Control

1971

Dr R G Edwards

Human Conception

1972

Prof S W S Pringle

A Vision of Man

1973

Dr G A Harrison

Human Population Biology Where Now?

1974

Prof Newton Morton

Interracial Crosses and Group Differences

1975

Prof J Z Young

The Evolution of Memory

1976

Prof F J Ebling

Evolution and Ethics

1977

Sir Cyril Clarke

From Butterflies to Preventing Rhesus Babies

1978

Prof C O Carter

Natural and Artificial Selection in Man

1979

Prof D S Weatherall

The Molecular Genetics of Thalassaemia – A Model for Human Genetic Disease

1980

Prof R V Short

The Evolution of Sexuality in Man and the Great Apes

1981

Dr Mary Leakey

The Implications of Pliocene Hominid Footprints

1982

Prof D F Roberts

The Biology of Human Isolation

1983

Prof. R Williamson

Genetic Engineering and the Study of Human Inheritance

1984

Prof  J A Beardmore

Genetics and the Nature of Man

1985

Dr W F Bodmer

Genetics and Cancer

1986

Sir John Walton

Biology and Human Muscle Disease

1987

Prof  E Grebenik

Demography, Democracy and Demonology

1988

Prof  Malcolm Ferguson-Smith

Primary Sex Determination in the Human Embryo

1989

Dr Sydney Brenner

The Human Genome

1990

Sir Richard Doll

Controlled Trials in Medicine: Retrospect and Prospect - reported in the May 1991 Newsletter

1991

Dr John Fox

Social Factors and Health

1992

Prof R A Hinde

Aggression and the Institution of War - reported in the June 1993 Newsletter

1993

Prof L Wolpert

The Unnatural Nature of Science

1994

Dr Robert Fogarty

Special Love/Special Sex: The Oneida Community Experiment

2001

Professor Patrick Bateson FRS

William Bateson, Archibald Garrod and the nature of the "inborn"