The Cuvier-Geoffrey Debate

Toby Appel

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• For scientists, no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georg... Lees meer

Theory Change in Science

Lindley Darden

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• This innovative book focuses on the development of the gene theory as a case study in scientific creativity. Lees meer

The Heritage of Experimental Embryology

Viktor Hamburger

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• Here is a critical account of the experimental work of German biologist and Nobel laureate Hans Spemann, one of the founders of experimental embryolog... Lees meer

The Evolutionary Dynamics of Complex Systems

C Dyke

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• Dyke examines the controversial topics of sociobiology and evolution from scientific and philosophical perspectives. At issue are the basic underpinni... Lees meer

Hans Krebs

Frederic Lawrence Holmes

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• This comprehensive volume completes Frederic Holmes' notable and detailed biography of Hans Krebs, from the investigator's early development through t... Lees meer

The Wellborn Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• The four contributors to this volume examine the eugenics movements in Germany, France, Brazil, and the Soviet Union, and describe how geneticists and... Lees meer

Beyond the Gene

Jan Sapp

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• A new perspective on the history of genetics is offered as the author explores the conflicts which have shaped theoretical thinking about heredity and... Lees meer

Darwin Without Malthus

Daniel P Todes

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• Nineteenth century Russian intellectuals perceived a Malthusian bias in Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. They identified th... Lees meer

Hans Krebs

Frederic Laurence Holmes

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• This is the first volume of a comprehensive scientific biography of Hans Krebs, one of the world's foremost biochemists. It treats his childhood, his ... Lees meer

Controlling Life

Philip J Pauly

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• The author traces Loeb's wide influence on the development of behaviorism, genetics, and reproductive biology. Lees meer

Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology

Alfred I Tauber, Leonid Chernyak

• Hardcover | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• This fascinating intellectual history is the first critical study of the work of Elie Metchnikoff, the founding father of modern immunology. Metchniko... Lees meer

The Molecular Vision of Life

Lily E Kay

• Paperback | Engels | Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
• This fascinating study examines the rise of American molecular biology to disciplinary dominance, focusing on the period between 1930 and the elucidat... Lees meer