The life organic : the Theoretical Biology Club and the roots of epigenetics / Erik L. Peterson.

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Peterson, Erik L [Author]

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9780822981985

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QH331 .L544 2016

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Contents:

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?

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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?

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