The life organic : the Theoretical Biology Club and the roots of epigenetics / Erik L. Peterson.
Peterson, Erik L., author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2016
QH331 .P385 2016
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Title The life organic : the Theoretical Biology Club and the roots of epigenetics / Erik L. Peterson.
Author Peterson, Erik L., author.
ISBN 9780822981985 (electronic bk.)
082298198X (electronic bk.)
9780822944669
0822944669
Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 334 pages.)
Call Number QH331 .P385 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 570.1
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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