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View article: Honoring the Complexity of Genetics: Exploring the Role of Genes and the Environment Using Real World Examples
Honoring the Complexity of Genetics: Exploring the Role of Genes and the Environment Using Real World Examples Open
Historically, undergraduate genetics courses have disproportionately focused on the impact of genes on phenotypes, rather than multifactorial concepts which consider how a combination of genes, the environment, and gene-by-environment inte…
View article: Theory-Ladenness as a Problem for Plant Data Linkage
Theory-Ladenness as a Problem for Plant Data Linkage Open
This paper draws upon the history of scientific studies of inheritance in Mendel’s best-remembered model organism, the garden pea, as a source of two parables – one pessimistic, the other optimistic – on the challenges of data linkage in p…
View article: Mendelian or Multifactorial? Current Undergraduate Genetics Assessments Focus on Genes and Rarely Include the Environment
Mendelian or Multifactorial? Current Undergraduate Genetics Assessments Focus on Genes and Rarely Include the Environment Open
Undergraduate genetics courses have historically focused on simple genetic models, rather than taking a more multifactorial approach where students explore how traits are influenced by a combination of genes, the environment, and gene-by-e…
View article: Darwin's Argument by Analogy
Darwin's Argument by Analogy Open
In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no c…
View article: <i>Analogy in the Background to the</i> Origin
<i>Analogy in the Background to the</i> Origin Open
In the decades before the Origin, a split arises between two very different concepts of analogy, and so two views of argument by analogy. Some people, taking 'analogy' as a synonym for 'similarity',came to a new understanding of 'argument …
View article: Analogy in Classical Greece
Analogy in Classical Greece Open
The concept of analogy was first analysed in classical Greek thought. By 'analogy' was meant a four-term relation: A is to B as C is to D. Initially, within Greek mathematics, analogy expressed the equality of the relative magnitudes of tw…
View article: Of lice and men: Charles Darwin, Henry Denny and the evidence for the human races as varieties or species
Of lice and men: Charles Darwin, Henry Denny and the evidence for the human races as varieties or species Open
Charles Darwin never doubted the common ancestry of the human races. But he was open-minded about whether the races might nevertheless be so different from each other that they ought to be classified not as varieties of one species but as …
View article: Emergence in Biology
Emergence in Biology Open
The nature of biology’s connection with the physical sciences and, relatedly, the status of biology as a science in its own right were common themes in the reflective writings of early twentieth-century biologists. One stimulus was the app…
View article: Robert J. Richards and Lorraine Daston (eds.), Kuhn's <i>Structure of Scientific Revolutions</i> at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-226-31720-5. £17.50 (paperback).
Robert J. Richards and Lorraine Daston (eds.), Kuhn's <i>Structure of Scientific Revolutions</i> at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-226-31720-5. £17.50 (paperback). Open
Robert J. Richards and Lorraine Daston (eds.), Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty: Reflections on a Science Classic. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-226-31720-5. £17.50 (paperback). - Vo…
View article: Genetic Determinism in the Genetics Curriculum
Genetic Determinism in the Genetics Curriculum Open
Twenty-first century biology rejects genetic determinism, yet an exaggerated view of the power of genes in the making of bodies and minds remains a problem. What accounts for such tenacity? This article reports an exploratory study suggest…
View article: Animal agency in the age of the Modern Synthesis: W.H. Thorpe's example
Animal agency in the age of the Modern Synthesis: W.H. Thorpe's example Open
The mechanical and reductive ideals of much of modern science leave it ill-equipped to recognize, let alone account for, the agency of animals. So says a tradition of criticism well represented in the writings of the British behavioural bi…