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Alan Rocke, director
216-368-2614


  Patricia Princehouse teaches Evolutionary Biology and the History and Philosophy of Science at  Case Western Reserve University, where she has also been deeply involved with the College Scholars Program, and Case's highly innovative SAGES program.

A native of Dayton, OH, Princehouse graduated from Kent State University, and then earned a master's in Biological Anthropology at Yale University where she specialized in hominoid evolution and did field and museum work in North America, Europe and Africa.

Princehouse holds a PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University where she worked with Everett Mendelsohn, Richard Lewontin, and Stephen Jay Gould.

She is currently working on two books for University of Chicago Press, Darwin's Mutant Phoenix: Macroevolution in the Twentieth Century and a biography, Stephen Jay Gould's View of Life.

Princehouse is a founding member of
Ohio Citizens for Science, and has been active in Ohio's controversy over teaching "Intelligent Design Creationism" in the public schools.

Patricia also breeds and shows purebred dogs. Many Great Pyrenees and Pyrenean Shepherds of her breeding have become champions in the US and Canada, as well as winning top awards in performance events such as obedience, herding, flyball and agility.

She will speak on Sunday Oct 17, on "Stephen Jay Gould, Darwinism, and the Uses of Creationism"
This event is FREE and open to the public

Alan Rocke, director
216-368-2614