Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology

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Yale University Press (2008)
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This book is the first devoted to modern biology's innovators and iconoclasts: men and women who challenged prevailing notions in their fields.

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0300158459   0300150547   9780300150544   9780300116397   030011639X   9780300158458

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Challenging the Protein Dogma of the Gene: Oswald T. Avery – a Revolutionary Conservative.Ute Deichmann
Wilhelm Johannsen: A rebel or a diehard.Raphael Falk
Alfred Russel Wallace, the Discovery of Natural Selection, and the Origins of Humankind.  (pages 20)Michael Ruse
Rebel With Two Causes: Hans Driesch.  (pages 37)Garland E. Allen
Raymond Arthur Dart: the man who unwillingly ushered in a revolution in the evolution of humankind.  (pages 84--102)Phillip V. Tobias
In Weismann's Footsteps: The Cyto-Rebellion of CD Darlington.  (pages 103)Oren Harman
Rebellion and Iconoclasm in the Life and Science of Barbara McClintock.  (pages 137)Nathaniel Comfort
Roger Sperry and Integrative Action in the Nervous System.  (pages 174)Tim Horder
Leon Croizat: A Radical Biogeographer.  (pages 194)David L. Hull
Dogma, Heresy, and Conversion: Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards's Crusade and the Levels-of-Selection Debate.  (pages 213)Mark Borrello
Peter Mitchell: Changing the face of bioenergetics.  (pages 231--247)John Prebble & Bruce Weber
'Howard Temin: Rebel of Evidence and Reason.  (pages 248)Daniel J. Kevles
Motoo Kimura and the Rise of Neutralism.  (pages 265)James F. Crow
The Science and Life of William D. Hamilton.  (pages 282)Ullica Segerstrale
The iconoclastic research program of Carl Woese.  (pages 302)Jan Sapp
Stephen Jay Gould, Darwinian Iconoclast?  (pages 321--337)David Sepkoski
Culture and Gender Do Not Dissolve into How Scientists “Read” Nature: Thelma Rowell's Heterodoxy.  (pages 338)Vinciane Despret
Bringing Statistical Methods to Community and Evolutionary Ecology: Daniel S. Simberloff.  (pages 356)William Dritschilo
Epilogue: Legitimation Is the Name of the Game.  (pages 372)R. C. Lewontin

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