TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peterson,Erik L.
TI  - The life organic: the Theoretical Biology Club and the roots of epigenetics 
SN  - 9780822981985
AV  - QH331 
U1  - 570.1 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Theoretical Biology Club
KW  - Biology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Epigenetics
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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