The Life Organic : The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics /

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Peterson, Erik L.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Theoretical Biology Club.
Epigenetics.
Biology > Philosophy.
SCIENCE > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
NATURE > Reference.
Épigenetique > Histoire.
Biologie > Philosophie > Histoire.
Epigenetics > History.
Biology > Philosophy > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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