Sherrie Lynne Lyons
Sherrie Lynne Lyons (born 1947) is an American author, science historian and skeptic.
Lyons worked as an Assistant Professor at the Center for Distance Learning of
Empire State College at the State University of New York.[1]
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.[2] The book contains skeptical information on cryptozoology, parapsychology, phrenology and spiritualism. It is notable for documenting the early scientific debates about sea serpents.[3][4]
Publications
- Thomas Henry Huxley: The Evolution of a Scientist (Prometheus Books, 1999)[5][6]
- Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age (ISBN 978-1-4384-2802-4
- Evolution: The Basics (Routledge, 2011)[7]
- From Cells to Organisms: Re-Envisioning Cell Theory (ISBN 978-1-4426-3509-8[8]
References
- ^ "Sherrie Lynne Lyons". Alibris.
- 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.
- ISSN 0006-3568.
- JSTOR 23332324.
- S2CID 254792428.
- S2CID 236373872.