Doogab Yi
Doogab Yi
This paper delves into the historical development of recombinant DNA technology, examining the pivotal controversies surrounding public health and commercialization that emerged with the prospect of gene cloning in the 1970s. The analysis w...
How to Civilize Elites: Controlling "Foreign Scientists" at a Field Station in the Galápagos Islands [0.03%]
如何文明精英：加拉帕戈斯群岛野外站的“外国科学家”控制机制研究
M Susan Lindee
M Susan Lindee
This paper explores the control of visiting "foreign scientists" at the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) after it was established in the Galápagos Islands in 1959. Scholarly accounts of the creation of the Galápagos National Park an...
The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes Arber's Philosophy of Plants [0.03%]
论植物的目的性：阿格尼斯·阿尔伯植物哲学中的目的观
Vera Maximilia Straetmanns
Vera Maximilia Straetmanns
Agnes Arber (1879-1960) was a British plant morphologist, historian of botany, and philosopher of biology. Though now largely forgotten, her work offers valuable insights into morphological as well as philosophical issues. This paper focuse...
Mary P Winsor
Mary P Winsor
Darwin's "Dark Matter" and the History of Biology: An Editorial Introduction [0.03%]
达尔文的“暗物质”及生物学史——发刊辞
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
David Stack
David Stack
This article revisits the question of Alfred Russel Wallace's relationship to eugenics and explores the basis of Wallace's consistent rejection of attempts to label him a eugenicist. Whereas some scholars have identified an 'ambiguity' or '...
A Biogeographical Debate at the Origins of Limnology in Switzerland and Italy: The Issue over Pelagic Fauna Between Pietro Pavesi and François-Alphonse Forel [0.03%]
瑞士和意大利湖泊学起源的生物地理学争鸣——Pietro Pavesi 和François-Alphonse Forel 关于远洋动物问题的争论
Pier Luigi Pireddu
Pier Luigi Pireddu
This article explores the early biogeographical debates that shaped the beginning of limnology, focusing on the differences of opinion concerning the origins of pelagic fauna between two pioneering scientists: Pietro Pavesi and François-Al...
The Study of Geographical Distribution in the Analysis of Domestication as an Evolutionary Process: Tensions in Alphonse de Candolle's Approach [0.03%]
从地理分布研究看作为进化过程的驯化分析：阿方斯·德康多利研究中的矛盾之处
Miriam Álvarez-Tostado,Alfredo Bueno-Hernández,Ana Barahona et al.
Miriam Álvarez-Tostado et al.
Interest in the study of domesticated plants increased near the end of the 18th century, mainly because of their economic potential. In the 19th century, there was a new focus on the historical understanding of species, their origin, change...
Jonah Branding
Jonah Branding
There's something strange about Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1930). Biologically, Freud was a Neo-Lamarckian, who believed in both the modification of organisms through need and the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Howe...
"The Logic of Monsters:" Pere Alberch and the Evolutionary Significance of Experimental Teratology [0.03%]
“怪物的逻辑”: Pere Alberch与实验畸形学的进化意义
Juanma Sánchez Arteaga
Juanma Sánchez Arteaga
This paper offers an historical introduction to Pere Alberch's evolutionary thought and his contributions to Evo-Devo, based on his unique approach to experimental teratology. We will take as our point of reference the teratogenic experimen...