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Rebels, mavericks, and heretics in biology /
This book is the first devoted to modern biology's innovators and iconoclasts: men and women who challenged prevailing notions in their fields. Some of these scientists were Nobel Prize winners, some were considered cranks or gadflies, some were in fact wrong. The stories of these stubborn diss...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2008]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : On rebels, icons, and the value of dissent / Oren Harman and 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.