Nina Kranke
Nina Kranke
Tree diagrams are the prevailing form of visualization in biological classification and phylogenetics. Already during the time of the so-called Systematist Wars from the mid-1960s until the 1980s most journal articles and textbooks publishe...
The Elementary Organisms [0.03%]
原生生物学导论
Ernst Brücke,Daniel Liu
Ernst Brücke
In 1861 the physiologist Ernst Brücke (1819-1892) published "The Elementary Organisms," calling for a major reform of the definition of the animal cell. An English translation of Brücke's essay is presented here for the first time. In thi...
The Schema and Organization of the Cell: An Introduction to Ernst Brücke's Die Elementarorganismen (1861) [0.03%]
细胞的结构与组织——论恩斯特·布鲁克《元素机体》(1861)之意义
Daniel Liu
Daniel Liu
Ernst Brücke's 1861 essay Die Elementarorganismen has often been cited as a watershed in the history of physiology as well as in the history of cell theory. In its time it was widely read as a reform of animal cell theory, shifting the con...
"Pray Observe How Time Slips By:" Collaborators, Assistants, and the Background Dynamics in the Publication of Darwin's Cirripedia Project [0.03%]
“你看时间是如何流逝的”达尔文《蔓足亚纲》著作背后的合作者与助手及其他背景动态关系
Bruno Alves Valverde,Cristina de Campos
Bruno Alves Valverde
This study investigates nineteenth century natural history practices through the lens of the Actor-Network Theory, which posits that scientific practice is shaped by an intricate network of interactions between human and non-human actors. A...
Species Choice and Model Use: Reviving Research on Human Development [0.03%]
人类发展研究中的物种选择与模型运用:重振这一研究领域
Nick Hopwood
Nick Hopwood
While model organisms have had many historians, this article places studies of humans, and particularly our development, in the politics of species choice. Human embryos, investigated directly rather than via animal surrogates, have gone th...
William Lawrence Tower's Beetles: Experimental Evolution and the Manipulation of Inheritance [0.03%]
威廉·劳伦斯·塔尔伯特的甲虫:实验进化与遗传操纵
Eric J Richards
Eric J Richards
William Lawrence Tower's work on the evolution of the Colorado Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), documenting the environmental induction of mutation and speciation, made him a leading figure in experimental genetics during the firs...
Eric Burns Anderson
Eric Burns Anderson
The importance of naturalization-the establishment of species introduced into foreign places-to the early development of Darwin's theory of evolution deserves historical attention. Introduced and invasive European species presented Darwin w...
Darwin and the White Shipwrecked Sailor: Beyond Blending Inheritance and the Jenkin Myth [0.03%]
达尔文与白种海难幸存者:超出融合遗传和詹金神话的影响
Thierry Hoquet
Thierry Hoquet
This paper revisits Fleeming Jenkin's anonymous review of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, published in the North British Review in June 1867. This review is usually revered for its impact on Darwin's theory of descent with modification....
Developing Sex: From Recremental Semen to Developmental Endocrinology [0.03%]
从泄欲的精液到发育激素学:《发展中的性》书评
Diederik F Janssen
Diederik F Janssen
During the 1890s, animal development became associated with glandular activity, with profound implications for pediatric nosology and treatment. The significance of this endocrinological turn of developmental physiology and pathophysiology ...
Betty Smocovitis,Nicolas Rasmussen
Betty Smocovitis