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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822981985
  • 082298198X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life organic.DDC classification:
  • 570.1 23
LOC classification:
  • QH331
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references 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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