Studies in the History of Biology
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Studies in the History of Biology was an annual publication edited by William Coleman and Camille Limoges
and published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD, in seven volumes from 1977 to 1984.
Camille Limoges
Camille Limoges recently retired as deputy minister of Québec's ministère de la Recherche, de la Science, et de la Technologie. His three decades of work, both as a scholar and a civil servant, has made an indelible mark on science and technology research....
and published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD, in seven volumes from 1977 to 1984.
- Vol. 1 (1977) 232 pp. ISBN 0801818621
- Ravin, Arnold R.: The gene as catalyst, the gene as organism. 1-45. PMID 11609975
- Albury, William Randall: Experiment and explanation in the physiology of BichatMarie François Xavier BichatMarie François Xavier Bichat , French anatomist and physiologist, was born at Thoirette .Bichat is best remembered as the father of modern histology and pathology. Despite the fact that he worked without a microscope he was able to advance greatly the understanding of the human body...
and MagendieFrançois MagendieFrançois Magendie was a French physiologist, considered a pioneer of experimental physiology. He is known for describing the foramen of Magendie. There is also a Magendie sign, a downward and inward rotation of the eye due to a lesion in the cerebellum...
. 47-131. PMID 11609978 - Cowan, Ruth Schwartz: Nature and nurture: the interplay of biology and politics in the work of Francis GaltonFrancis GaltonSir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
. 133-208. PMID 11609976 - Holmes, Frederic L.: Conceptual history: a review of François JacobFrançois JacobFrançois Jacob is a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through feedback on transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.-Childhood and education:François Jacob is...
, La Logique du Vivant - The Logic of Life. 209-218. PMID 11609977
- Vol. 2 (1978) 224 pp. ISBN 0801820340
- Staum, M.S.: Medical components in Cabanis'sPierre Jean George Cabanis-Further reading:- Further reading :----...
science of man. 1-31. PMID 11610408 - Ospovat, Dov: Perfect adaptation and teleologicalTeleologyA teleology is any philosophical account which holds that final causes exist in nature, meaning that design and purpose analogous to that found in human actions are inherent also in the rest of nature. The word comes from the Greek τέλος, telos; root: τελε-, "end, purpose...
explanation: approaches to the problem of the history of life in the mid-nineteenth century. 33-56. PMID 11610411 - Kottler, D.B.: Louis PasteurLouis PasteurLouis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments...
and molecular dissymmetry, 1844-1857. 57-98. PMID 11610412 - Todes, Daniel: V.O. Kovalevskii: the genesis, content, and reception of his paleontological work. 99-165.
- Provine, W. B.: The role of mathematical population geneticists in the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. 167-192. PMID 11610409
- Haraway, D.J. & Mocek, R.: Reinterpretation or rehabilitation: an exercise in contemporary Marxist history of scienceHistory of scienceThe history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural world and the domains of the social sciences....
. 193-209. PMID 11610410
- Staum, M.S.: Medical components in Cabanis's
- Vol. 3 (1979) 297 pp. ISBN 0801822157 - A festschrift for Ernst MayrErnst MayrErnst Walter Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist...
on his 75th birthday in 1979.- Burkhardt, Richard W., Jr.: Closing the door on Lord Morton's mareLord Morton's mareLord Morton’s Mare was once an often noticed example in the history of evolutionary theory.In 1821 George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, F.R.S., reported to the President of the Royal Society that being desirous of domesticating the quagga, he had bred an Arabian chestnut mare with a quagga...
: the rise and fall of telegonyTelegonyThe Telegony is a lost ancient Greek epic poem about Telegonus, son of Odysseus by Circe. His name is indicative of his birth on Aeaea, far from Odysseus' home of Ithaca. It was part of the Epic Cycle of poems that recounted the myths not only of the Trojan War but also of the events that led up...
. 1-21. PMID 11610983 - Sulloway, Frank J.Frank SullowayFrank J. Sulloway is a visiting Scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology....
: Geographic isolation in Darwin'sCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
thinking: the vicissitudes of a crucial idea. 23-65. PMID 11610987 - Coleman, WilliamWilliam ColemanWilliam Coleman may refer to:*Bill Coleman, jazz trumpeter*Bill Coleman , Anglican bishop in Canada*Will Coleman , American football coach at the University of Kansas...
: Bergmann's RuleBergmann's RuleBergmann's rule is an ecogeographic principle that states that within a broadly distributed genus, species of larger size are found in colder environments, and species of smaller size are found in warmer regions. Although originally formulated in terms of species within a genus, it has often been...
: animal heat as a biological phenomenon. 67-88. PMID 11610989 - Winsor, Mary Pickard: Louis AgassizLouis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
and the species question. 89-117. PMID 11610990 - Gould, Stephen JayStephen Jay GouldStephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....
: Agassiz'sLouis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
marginalia in Lyell'sCharles LyellSir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by slow-moving forces still in operation...
PrinciplesPrinciples of GeologyPrinciples of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation, is a book by the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell....
, or the perils of uniformity and the ambiguity of heroes. 119-138. - Churchill, Frederick B.: Sex and the single organism: biological theories of sexuality in mid-nineteenth century. 139–177. PMID 11610984
- Allen, Garland E.: Naturalists and experimentalists: the genotype and the phenotype. 179—209. PMID 11610985
- Provine, William B.: Francis B. Sumner and the evolutionary synthesis. 211-240. PMID 11610986
- Adams, Mark B.: From "gene fund" to "gene pool": on the evolution of evolutionary language. 241—285. PMID 11610988
- Burkhardt, Richard W., Jr.: Closing the door on Lord Morton's mare
- Vol. 4 (1980) 206 pp. ISBN 0801823625
- Leys, Ruth: Background to the reflex controversy: William AlisonWilliam Pulteney AlisonWilliam Pulteney Alison FRSE FRCPE FSA was a Scottish physician, social reformer and philanthropist. He was a distinguished professor of medicine at Edinburgh University...
and the doctrine of sympathy before Hall. 1-66. PMID 11615829 - Kohn, David: Theories to work by: rejected theories, reproduction and Darwin'sCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
path to natural selection. 67-170. PMID 11615830 - Cittadino, Eugene: Ecology and the professionalization of botanyBotanyBotany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...
in America. 171-198.
- Leys, Ruth: Background to the reflex controversy: William Alison
- Vol. 5 (1981) 216 pp. ISBN 0801825660
- Cross, Stephen J.: John HunterJohn Hunter (surgeon)John Hunter FRS was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. The Hunterian Society of London was named in his honour...
, the animal oeconomy, and late eighteenth-century physiological discourse. 5: 1-110. PMID 11611008 - Timothy Lenoir: The Göttingen School and the development of transcendental NaturphilosophieNaturphilosophieNaturphilosophie is a term used in English-language philosophy to identify a current in the philosophical tradition of German idealism, as applied to the study of Nature in the earlier 19th century...
in the Romantic Era. 111-205. PMID 11611009
- Cross, Stephen J.: John Hunter
- Vol. 6 (1982) 231 pp. ISBN 0801828562
- Hodge, M.J.S.: DarwinCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
and the laws of the animate part of the terrestrial system (1835-1837): on the LyellianCharles LyellSir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by slow-moving forces still in operation...
origins of his zoonomical explanatory program. 1–106. - Maienschein, J.: Experimental biology in transition: Harrison'sRoss Granville HarrisonRoss Granville Harrison was an American biologist and anatomist credited as the first to work successfully with artificial tissue culture....
embryology, 1895-1910. 107-127. - Haraway, Donna: Signs of dominance: from a physiology to a cybernetics of primate society, C.R. CarpenterClarence Ray CarpenterClarence Ray Carpenter was an American primatologist who was one of the first scientific investigators to film and videotape the behavior of primates in their natural environments....
, 1930-1970. 129-219.
- Hodge, M.J.S.: Darwin
- Vol. 7 (1984) 160 pp. ISBN 080182995X
- Eddy, J.H.: BuffonGeorges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonGeorges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier...
, organic alterations, and man. 1-45. PMID 11611371 - Jacyna, L.S.: Principles of general physiology: the comparative dimension of British neuroscience in the 1830s and 1840s. 7: 47-92. PMID 11611372
- Eddy, J.H.: Buffon