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- A listair S ponsel , Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018, x + 358 pp., $50.00.
- The commercialization of the biomedical sciences: (mis)understanding bias
- C hristopher J. A ustin , Essence in the age of evolution: a new theory of natural kinds , New York and Oxon: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2019, 144 pp., £115.00
- Time to elaborate on some of Scholander’s ideas: Does even a rudimentary form of the response of diving mammals exist in humans?
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- The galaxy of the non-Linnaean nomenclature
- How to produce ‘marketable and profitable results for the company’: from viral interference to Roferon A
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- Intellectual directions for History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences , 2019–2023
- From parts to mechanisms: research heuristics for addressing heterogeneity in cancer genetics
- S tuart G lennan , The New Mechanical Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 266 pp., $40.00.
- Blood, race and indigenous peoples in twentieth century extreme physiology
- Conceptual heterogeneity and the legacy of organicism: thoughts on the life organic
- L ucas M c G ranahan , Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self – Transformation , 2017, Routledge, 200 pp., $160.00
- Physiology studies and scientific exchange in the Anthropology Laboratory of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (1910s–1920s)
- The plurality of assumptions about fossils and time
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- K ärin N ickelsen , Explaining Photosynthesis: Models of Biochemical Mechanisms, 1840 – 1960 , Springer, Dordrecht, 2015
- All things bleak and bare beneath a brazen sky: practice and place in the analysis of Australopithecus
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- Taxonomy and conservation science: interdependent and value-laden
- Philosophical import of non-epistemic values in clinical trials and data interpretation
- Evolutionary causes as mechanisms: a critical analysis
- The impacts of assumptions on theories of tooth development and evolution at the turn of the nineteenth century
- Between biology and chemistry in the Enlightenment: how nutrition shapes vital organization. Buffon, Bonnet, C.F. Wolff
- Simplicity, one-shot hypotheses and paleobiological explanation
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- H anna H odacs , K enneth N yberg and S téphane V an D amme (eds.), Linnaeus, Natural History and the Circulation of Knowledge (Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment), Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2018, xv + 274 pp., £75.00
- Internalism, externalism and life-cyclism in the history of helminthology
- Roman Göbel, Gerhard Müller, and Claudia Taszus (eds.), Ernst Haeckel: Ausgewählte Briefwechsel . Band 1: Familienkorrespondenz Februar 1839 – April 1854
- Realization in biology?
- Evaluating evidential pluralism in epidemiology: mechanistic evidence in exposome research
- J onathan B irch , The Philosophy of Social Evolution , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, x + 268 pp., hardcover
- ‘Birth, life, and death of infectious diseases’: Charles Nicolle (1866–1936) and the invention of medical ecology in France
- Pluralization through epistemic competition: scientific change in times of data-intensive biology
- J oel F aflak (ed.), Marking Time: Romanticism and Evolution
- At the intersection of medical geography and disease ecology: Mirko Grmek, Jacques May and the concept of pathocenosis
- Animal life and mind in Hobbes’s philosophy of nature
- Gluing life together. Computer simulation in the life sciences: an introduction
- S cott L idgard and L ynn K. N yhart (eds.), Biological individuality: integrating scientific, philosophical and historical perspectives
- Revisiting the Pouchet–Pasteur controversy over spontaneous generation: understanding experimental method
- ‘Extreme’ organisms and the problem of generalization: interpreting the Krogh principle
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- Introduction: sketches of a conceptual history of epigenesis
- Theoricity and homology: a reply to Roffe, Ginnobili, and Blanco
- Human progress by human effort: neo-Darwinism, social heredity, and the professionalization of the American social sciences, 1889–1925
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- Model and movement: studying cell movement in early morphogenesis, 1900 to the present
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- Philosophy of nature and organism’s autonomy: on Hegel, Plessner and Jonas’ theories of living beings
- Possibilities and limitations of three-dimensional reconstruction and simulation techniques to identify patterns, rhythms and functions of apoptosis in the early developing neural tube
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- D enis N oble , Dance to the Tune of Life — Biological Relativity , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, December 2016, 302 pp., £ 17.99
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- A non-metaphysical evaluation of vitalism in the early twentieth century
- Lynn Hankinson Nelson , Biology and Feminism: A Philosophical Introduction , New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017, x + 251 pp., $30.86/£21.99 (paperback)
- FERNANDO VIDAL and FRANCISCO ORTEGA , Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject, New York, Fordham University Press, 2017, 320 pp., $60 Hardcover ($59.99 eBook)/£46.00
- The production of a physiological puzzle: how Cytisus adami confused and inspired a century’s botanists, gardeners, and evolutionists
- Entangled histories of plague ecology in Russia and the USSR
- M arc J. R atcliff , Genèse d’une Découverte: La Division des Infusoires (1765 – 1766) , Paris: Publication scientifiques du Museum national d’histoire naturelle, 2016, 751 pp., 45 €
- The instability of field experiments: building an experimental research tradition on the rocky seashores (1950–1985)
- “Other minds than ours”: a controversial discussion on the limits and possibilities of comparative psychology in the light of C. Lloyd Morgan’s work
- Correction to: Theoricity, observation and homology: a response to Pearson
- Theoricity, observation and homology: a response to Pearson
- On the historical significance of Beijerinck and his contagium vivum fluidum for modern virology
- The search of “canonical” explanations for the cerebral cortex
- M ichael F ry , Landmark experiments in molecular biology
- Retraction Note to: Diverging views of epigenesis: the Wolff–Blumenbach debate
- L uis A. C ampos , Radium and the secret of life
- A lfred I. T auber , Immunity: the Evolution of an Idea , Oxford University Press, 2017, xx + 303 pp., $72.21
- G ottfried B rem (ed.), 150 Jahre Mendelsche Regeln: Vom Erbsenzählen zum Gen-Editieren (Nova Acta Leopoldina 413)
- Multispecies individuals
- S nait B. G issis , E hud L amm , and A yelet S havit (eds.): Landscapes of collectivity in the life sciences
- D erek M. J ones, The biological foundations of action
- Introduction to “Working Across Species”
- Thomas Hunt Morgan and the invisible gene: the right tool for the job
- Bringing Darwin into the social sciences and the humanities: cultural evolution and its philosophical implications
- Was Aristotle the ‘father’ of the epigenesis doctrine?
- Phenylbutazone (Bute, PBZ, EPZ): one drug across two species
- The evolution of morality and its rollback
- Predictive hypotheses are ineffectual in resolving complex biochemical systems
- Working across species down on the farm: Howard S. Liddell and the development of comparative psychopathology, c. 1923–1962
- Continuous culture techniques as simulators for standard cells: Jacques Monod’s, Aron Novick’s and Leo Szilard’s quantitative approach to microbiology
- Reconstructing an incomparable organism: the Chalicothere in nineteenth and early-twentieth century palaeontology
- An orangutan in Paris: pondering Proximity at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in 1836
- Translational neonatology research: transformative encounters across species and disciplines
- The diving reflex and asphyxia: working across species in physiological ecology
- New perspectives in the history of twentieth-century life sciences: historical, historiographical and epistemological themes
- Modeling complexity: cognitive constraints and computational model-building in integrative systems biology
- S teeves D emazeux and P atrick S ingy (eds.), The DSM – 5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel , Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer, 2015, Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, Vol. 10, 238 pp, £90
- Robot life: simulation and participation in the study of evolution and social behavior
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- Epigenesis by experience: Romantic empiricism and non-Kantian biology
- Correction to: Informing materials: drugs as tools for exploring cancer mechanisms and pathways
- Petri dish versus Winogradsky column: a longue durée perspective on purity and diversity in microbiology, 1880s–1980s
- From lighthouse to hothouse: hospital hygiene, antibiotics and the evolution of infectious disease, 1950–1990
- Stochasticity in cultural evolution: a revolution yet to happen
- History as a biomedical matter: recent reassessments of the first cases of Alzheimer’s disease
- The sociobiology of genes: the gene’s eye view as a unifying behavioural-ecological framework for biological evolution
- Paleoanthropology’s uses of the bipedal criterion
- S tephen H ilgartner , Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution , Cambridge Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 2017, xiv + 343 pp., May 2017, $35.00/£27.95
- Semiotic systems with duality of patterning and the issue of cultural replicators
- Crafting socialist embryology: dialectics, aquaculture and the diverging discipline in Maoist China, 1950–1965
- Radium, biophysics, and radiobiology: tracing the history of radiobiology in twentieth-century China
- M arta B ertolaso , Philosophy of Cancer: A Dynamic and Relational View, Dordrecht: Springer, 2016, xv + 190 pp., £66.99
- Developmental push or environmental pull? The causes of macroevolutionary dynamics
- Fitting structure to function in gene regulatory networks
- The network remains
- Human germline editing: a historical perspective
- Hierarchy, determinism, and specificity in theories of development and evolution
- Eric Davidson, his philosophy, and the history of science
- Mechanisms and causality in molecular diseases
- Homage to Eric Davidson
- Introduction: Eric Davidson and the molecular biology of evolution and development
- Eric Davidson and deep time
- Darwinism in metaethics: What if the universal acid cannot be contained?
- Hughlings Jackson and the “doctrine of concomitance”: mind-brain theorising between metaphysics and the clinic
- C atherine L arrère , R aphaël L arrère , Penser et agir avec la nature: Une enquête philosophique , éditions La Découverte, coll. Sciences humaines, France, 2015, 374 pp., €14.99
- Ultimate and proximate explanations of strong reciprocity
- The behavioural ecology of irrational behaviours
- Wilhelm His and mechanistic approaches to development at the time of Entwicklungsmechanik
- From Pleistocene to Holocene: the prehistory of southwest Asia in evolutionary context
- The beauty of sensory ecology
- ‘So far like the present period’: a reply to ‘C.H. Waddington’s differences with the creators of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis: a Tale of Two Genes’
- C.H. Waddington’s differences with the creators of the modern evolutionary synthesis: a tale of two genes
- Erratum to: René Dubos, tuberculosis, and the “ecological facets of virulence”
- How mechanisms explain interfield cooperation: biological–chemical study of plant growth hormones in Utrecht and Pasadena, 1930–1938
- René Dubos, tuberculosis, and the “ecological facets of virulence”
- M arco S olinas , from Aristotle’s teleology to Darwin’s genealogy: the stamp of inutility, Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, 2015, 200 pp., $95,00 (Hardcover)
- Nowhere to run, rabbit: the cold-war calculus of disease ecology
- Diverging views of epigenesis: the Wolff–Blumenbach debate
- The invention of artificial fertilization in the eighteenth and nineteenth century
- Informing materials: drugs as tools for exploring cancer mechanisms and pathways
- The organism strikes back: Chlorella algae and their impact on photosynthesis research, 1920s–1960s
- Epigenesis and the rationality of nature in William Harvey and Margaret Cavendish
- Sarah S. Richardson , Sex Itself. The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome
- Before hierarchy: the rise and fall of Stephen Jay Gould’s first macroevolutionary synthesis
- From working collections to the World Germplasm Project: agricultural modernization and genetic conservation at the Rockefeller Foundation
- Leibniz, the microscope and the concept of preformation
- Kant’s epigenesis: specificity and developmental constraints
- The organism as reality or as fiction: Buffon and beyond
- Reconsidering alternative transportation systems to reach academic conferences and to convey an example to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- William D. Hamilton’s Brazilian lectures and his unpublished model regarding Wynne-Edwards’s idea of natural selection. With a note on ‘pluralism’ and different philosophical approaches to evolution
- Neo-Darwinists and Neo-Aristotelians: how to talk about natural purpose
- Laws of organization and chemical analysis: Blainville and Müller
- D enise P hillips and S haron K ingsland (eds.) New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture , Springer International Publishing, 2015, vii + 509 pp., €181,89 (hardcover)
- Epigenetics: ambiguities and implications
- A tale of two biographies: the myth and truth of Barbara McClintock
- Stage-hands, make-up artists, and other backstage characters in the drama of science
- Dissolution of hypotheses in biochemistry: three case studies
- Some conceptual issues in the transition from chemistry to biology
- T im L ewens , Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges , Oxford University Press, x + 205. p. 2015. $45.00
- Theorizing epigenesis in a time of preexistence: From the end of the seventeenth century to the 1720s
- From ecological records to big data: the invention of global biodiversity
- A history of chorological categories
- Active matter, then and now