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Title:

Rebels, mavericks, and heretics in biology / edited and with an introduction by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich ; and with an epilogue by R.C. Lewontin.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

viii, 400 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Biology--History.
Biologists--Biography.
Biology--history--Biography.

Other Authors:

Harman, Oren Solomon.
Dietrich, Michael R.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Epilogue : Legitimation is the name of the game / R.C. Lewontin. Michael R. Dietrich -- Alfred Russel Wallace, the discovery of natural selection, and the origins of humankind / Michael Ruse -- Rebel with two causes : Hans Driesch / Garland E. Allen -- Wilhelm Johannsen : a rebel or a diehard? / Raphael Falk -- Raymond Arthur Dart : the man who unwillingly ushered in a revolution in the evolution of humankind / Phillip V. Tobias -- In Weismann's footsteps : the cyto-rebellion of C.D. Darlington / Oren Harman -- Striking the hornet's nest : Richard Goldschmidt's rejection of the particulate gene / Michael R. Dietrich -- Rebellion and iconoclasm in the life and science of Barbara McClintock / Nathaniel Comfort -- Challenging the protein dogma of the gene : Oswald T. Avery, a revolutionary conservative / Ute Deichmann -- Roger Sperry and integrative action in the nervous system / Tim Horder -- Leon Croizat : a radical biogeographer / David L. Hull -- Dogma, heresy, and conversion : Vera Copner Wynne-Edwards's crusade and the levels-of-selection debate / Mark Borrello -- Peter Mitchell : changing the face of bioenergetics / John Prebble and Bruce Weber -- Howard Temin : rebel of evidence and reason / Daniel J. Kevles -- Motoo Kimura and the rise of neutralism / James F. Crow -- Against the grain : the science and life of William D. Hamilton / Ullica Segerstrale -- The iconoclastic research program of Carl Woese / Jan Sapp -- Stephen Jay Gould, Darwinian iconoclast? / David Sepkoski -- Culture and gender do not dissolve into how scientists "read" nature : Thelma Rowell's heterodoxy / Vinciane Despret -- Bringing statistical methods to community and evolutionary ecology : Daniel S. Simberloff / William Dritschilo -- Epilogue : Legitimation is the name of the game / R.C. Lewontin.

ISBN:

030011639X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300116397 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)192048164

LCCN:

2008006076

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)