The life organic : the Theoretical Biology Club and the roots of epigenetics /
Peterson, Erik L.
The life organic : the Theoretical Biology Club and the roots of epigenetics / Erik L. Peterson. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
The first generation of organicists -- Needham's revival of mechanism -- Socrates and the principia biolog? -- The tipping point -- Waddington and the organizer -- The original Theoretical Biology Club -- Large plans versus the ultimate littleness of things -- As many opinions as there are men -- "Off in all directions like an expanding universe" -- Mechanism reduced to molecules -- The Lysenko morality tale and the epigenetic landscape -- Ernst Mayr, neo-Darwinism, and beanbag genetics -- History of science is written by the laureates -- The 1960s reincarnation of the debate -- The conventional wisdom of the dominant group, or cowdung -- Conclusion : a third way after Waddington? -- Epilogue : is modern epigenetics organic?
9780822981985
Theoretical Biology Club.
Biology--Philosophy--History.
Epigenetics--History.
Electronic Books.
QH331 / .L544 2016
The life organic : the Theoretical Biology Club and the roots of epigenetics / Erik L. Peterson. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
The first generation of organicists -- Needham's revival of mechanism -- Socrates and the principia biolog? -- The tipping point -- Waddington and the organizer -- The original Theoretical Biology Club -- Large plans versus the ultimate littleness of things -- As many opinions as there are men -- "Off in all directions like an expanding universe" -- Mechanism reduced to molecules -- The Lysenko morality tale and the epigenetic landscape -- Ernst Mayr, neo-Darwinism, and beanbag genetics -- History of science is written by the laureates -- The 1960s reincarnation of the debate -- The conventional wisdom of the dominant group, or cowdung -- Conclusion : a third way after Waddington? -- Epilogue : is modern epigenetics organic?
9780822981985
Theoretical Biology Club.
Biology--Philosophy--History.
Epigenetics--History.
Electronic Books.
QH331 / .L544 2016