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REBELS, MAVERICKS, AND HERETICS IN BIOLOGY
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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction: On Rebels, Icons, and the Value of Dissent
OREN HARMAN and MICHAEL R. DIETRICH
ABOUT THE REBEL
ABOUT THE ICON
ABOUT ICONOCLASM
NOTES
CHAPTER Two
Alfred Russel Wallace, the Discovery of Natural Selection, and the Origins of Humankind
MICHAEL RUSE
MID-VICTORIAN THINKING ABOUT THE NATURE OF SCIENCE
CHARLES DARWIN AND EVOLUTION
VICTORIAN JONAH
WALLACE AND HIS ENTHUSIASMS
WALLACE THE EVOLUTIONIST
HUMAN ORIGINS
ENVOI
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER THREE
Rebel With Two Causes: Hans Driesch
GARLAND E. ALLEN
BACKGROUND
DRIESCH'S FIRST REBELLION: EMBRACING MECHANISM
THE NEW EMBRYOLOGY: WILHELM ROUX AND THE ENTWICKLUNGSMECHANIK PROGRAM
DRIESCH'S ANALYTISCHE THEORIE DER ORGANISCHEN ENTWICKLUNG
THE EMBRYO AS A HARMONIOUS EQUIPOTENTIAL SYSTEM
THE NECESSITY OF VITALISM AND THE "ENTELECHY"
REACTIONS TO DRIESCH'S VITALISM
DRIESCH'S LATER CAREER AND THE RISE OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM
CONCLUSION
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER FOUR
Wilhelm Johannsen: A Rebel or a Diehard?
RAPHAEL FALK
TYPES OR TRAITS?
PHENOTYPES AND GENOTYPES
STABILITY OF MENDELIAN FACTORS
CONTINUOUS DARWINIAN EVOLUTION
THE CONCEPTION OF TRANSMISSION VERSUS THE CONCEPTION OF GENOTYPE
THE PARADOX OF THE GENOTYPE CONCEPTION
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER FIVE
Raymond Arthur Dart: The Man Who Unwillingly Ushered in a Revolution in the Evolution of Humankind
PHILLIP V. TOBIAS
BRIEF SKETCH OF DART'S LIFE
THE DISCOVERY OF 1924 AND DART'S CLAIMS OF 1925
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF OPPOSITION
ANALYSIS OF THE NEGATIVE RESPONSE TO AUSTRALOPITHECUS AND DART'S CLAIMS FOR IT
OTHER DELAYING FACTORS IN THE ACCEPTANCE OF DISCOVERIES
THE TAUNG SKULL AND THE TENNESSEE MONKEY TRIAL
THE BANNING OF "EVOLUTION" IN SOUTH AFRICA
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER SIX
In Weismann's Footsteps: The Cyto-Rebellion of C. D. Darlington
OREN HARMAN
RECENT ADVANCES IN CYTOLOGY
RECEPTION
METHOD
THE DISCIPLINARY LANDSCAPE
EPILOGUE
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER SEVEN
Striking the Hornet's Nest: Richard Goldschmidt's Rejection of the Particulate Gene
MICHAEL R. DIETRICH
GOLDSCHMIDT'S GERMAN GENETICS
"THE THEORY OF THE GENE IS-DEAD!"
THE CASE FOR SYSTEMIC MUTATIONS
A GENETIC ALTERNATIVE
CONCLUSION
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER EIGHT
Rebellion and Iconoclasm in the Life and Science of Barbara McClintock
NATHANIEL COMFORT
PRIVATE ICONOCLASM
PUBLIC ICONOCLASM
PRIVATE REBELLION
PUBLIC REBELLION
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER NINE
Challenging the Protein Dogma of the Gene: Oswald T. Avery, a Revolutionary Conservative
UTE DEICHMANN
CHANGING CONCEPTS OF THE NATURE OF GENES
Early Assumptions about Genes as DNA
Genes as Abstract Factors
Genes as Proteins
CHANGING NOTIONS OF BACTERIAL INDIVIDUALITY AND VARIABILITY
OSWALD THEODORE AVERY AND HIS MAIN RESEARCH BEFORE 1944
THE CHALLENGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MICROBIOLOGY AND GENETICS
RECEPTION: APPRECIATION, SKEPTICISM, AND ACCEPTANCE
AVERY'S RESEARCH PRACTICES AND GENERAL ATTITUDES
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER TEN
Roger Sperry and Integrative Action in the Nervous System
TIM HORDER
LIFE
THE CONTEXT OF SPERRY'S EARLY SCIENTIFIC THINKING
SPERRY'S HUMPTY DUMPTY DILEMMA
Neural Specificity
Split Brains and Consciousness
Free Will and Values
THE FINAL MESSAGE OF SPERRY'S SCIENTIFIC WORK: DILEMMAS RESOLVED OR SHARPENED?
ON LASTING REPUTATIONS
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Leon Croizat: A Radical Biogeographer
DAVID L. HULL
BIOGEOGRAPHY TODAY
A HARD LIFE
PANBIOGEOGRAPHY
GARETH NELSON AND VICARIANCE BIOGEOGRAPHY
VICARIANCE BIOGEOGRAPHY AND THE NEW YORK SCHOOL
ROBIN CRAW AND PANBIOGEOGRAPHY
THE NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT
WHO WON? WHO LOST? AND WHY?
SCIENTISTS AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
THE ENTANGLED BANK OF SCIENCE
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER TWELVE
Dogma, Heresy, and Conversion: Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards's Crusade and the Levels-of-Selection Debate
MARK BORRELLO
GROUP SELECTION TODAY
EARLY LIFE AND NATURAL HISTORY
FROM THE CENTER TO THE PERIPHERY
A CHALLENGE TO ORTHODOXY?
GROUP SELECTION IS EVERYWHERE
A DEVASTATING RESPONSE
SECOND TIME AROUND: EVOLUTION THROUGH GROUP SELECTION (1986)
THE DEATH OF WYNNE-EDWARDS AND THE LIFE OF AN IDEA
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Peter Mitchell: Changing the Face of Bioenergetics
JOHN PREBBLE and BRUCE WEBER
INITIAL CONCEPTS OF OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION
PETER MITCHELL
THE CHEMIOSMOTIC HYPOTHESIS FOR OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION
SEEKING EVIDENCE
COMPETING THEORIES
MOVING TOWARDS FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHEMIOSMOTIC THEORY
REBELLIOUSNESS AND COMMITMENT
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Howard Temin: Rebel of Evidence and Reason
DANIEL J. KEVLES
THE YOUNG REBEL
AN ASSAY FOR THE ROUS SARCOMA VIRUS
THE PUZZLE OF THE ROUS VIRUS
CONTESTING ORTHODOXY
REBEL TO THE END
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Motoo Kimura and the Rise of Neutralism
JAMES F. CROW
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
POPULATION GENETICS THEORY
KIMURA'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO POPULATION GENETICS THEORY
THE NEUTRAL THEORY
KIMURA AS ADVOCATE
KIMURA AS REBEL
THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE NEUTRAL THEORY
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Against the Grain: The Science and Life of William D. Hamilton
ULLICA SEGERSTRALE
FINDING HIS PASSION
THE STRUGGLE FOR ALTRUISM
DOUBLE REBELLIONS
THE PARASITE PARADIGM
OXFORD DON
UNTRIVIAL PURSUITS
THE FINAL DEFIANCE
WHAT KIND OF REBEL WAS HAMILTON?
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The Iconoclastic Research Program of Carl Woese
JAN SAPP
A WORLD WITHOUT EVOLUTION
THE GENETIC CODE IN EVOLUTION
THE RIGHT MOLECULE FOR THE JOB
A THIRD FORM OF LIFE
RADICAL REVISIONS
LATERAL THINKING
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Stephen Jay Gould, Darwinian Iconoclast?
DAVID SEPKOSKI
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
TWO ICONOCLASMS
Punctuation and Orthodoxy
Critique of Adaptation
CONCLUSION
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Culture and Gender Do Not Dissolve into How Scientists "Read" Nature: Thelma Rowell's Heterodoxy
VINCIANE DESPRET
CONTRARINESS
BEING A WOMAN PRIMATOLOGIST
ISN'T DOMINANCE A MALE'S PROBLEM?
BEYOND PRIMATES
NOTES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER TWENTY
Bringing Statistical Methods to Community and Evolutionary Ecology: Daniel S. Simberloff
WILLIAM DRITSCHILO
BACKGROUND: ECOLOGY IN REVOLUTION
CONFLICT: SHOULD ECOLOGY FOLLOW SCIENTIFIC METHOD?
SLOSS: ISLANDS AND REFUGES
THE DARK HEART OF THE MATTER: NULL MODELS
EPILOGUE
NOTES
FURTHER READING
Epilogue: Legitimation Is the Name of the Game
R. C. LEWONTIN
NOTES
Contributors
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