Sherrie Lynne Lyons


Sherrie Lynne Lyons 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.
She is the author of the book Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age, which explores the distinctions between science and pseudoscience. The book contains skeptical information on cryptozoology, parapsychology, phrenology and spiritualism. It is notable for documenting the early scientific debates about sea serpents.

Publications

  • Thomas Henry Huxley: The Evolution of a Scientist
  • Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls: Science at the Margins in the Victorian Age
  • Evolution: The Basics
  • ''From Cells to Organisms: Re-Envisioning Cell Theory''