Pamela Mack received her doctorate in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. She is currently a member of the Department of History at Clemson University. Mack's essay, "The Early Years of the Cold Spring Harbor Station for Experimental Evolution," was written for a class taught by Daniel Kevles in 1979. In it, she charts the origins and first decade of the Station for Experimental Evolution (1904 to 1914) and its transformation under the leadership of Charles B. Davenport into an institution devoted to the study of eugenics.