Mark B. Adams, Ph.D., currently serves as Associate Professor and Graduate Chair in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Adams received his A.B. (1966), A.M. (1968), and Ph.D. (1973) in the History of Science from Harvard University. Since 1970, he has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he helped to found the Department of the History and Sociology of Science. He has won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, has held the Bers Chair in Social Science, and has been a Mellon Fellow at the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies. In 1982-83, he organized the university's Darwin Centennial, which included a weekly lecture series and two international conferences. Dr. Adams' teaching and research have covered the general history of Western science, the history of biology, Russian science, science and politics, and the history of science fiction. He has published widely on genetics, population genetics, evolutionary theory, morphology, Darwinism, eugenics, medical genetics, and the nature-nurture controversy. His recent publications include The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia (Oxford University Press, 1990) and The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky (Princeton University Press, 1994). The winner of recent awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is currently engaged in two projects-an analysis of the science and politics of human heredity in Russia (1900-90) and Visionary Biology, a history of 20th-century biological futurism in science and literature. Day 2: Morning Presentation