Sherrie Lynne Lyons

Sherrie Lynne Lyons (1947) is an American author, science historian and skeptic.

Lyons works 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 cryptzoology, 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)
• Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age (State University of New York Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-4384-2802-4
• Evolution: The Basics (Routledge, 2011)

References

1. "Sherrie Lynne Lyons". Alibris.
2. "Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls". State University of New York Press.
3. 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.
4. 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.