Textbook presentations of genetics have changed remarkably little since their earliest days.
Typically an initial chapter introduces Mendel's pea-hybridization experiments and the …

This paper challenges the common assumption that some phenotypic traits are quantitative
while others are qualitative. The distinction between these two kinds of traits is widely …

Advocates of “Mendelism” early on stressed the usefulness of Mendelian principles for
breeders. Ever since, that usefulness—and the favourable opinion of Mendelism it …

Within the philosophy of science, the realism debate has been revitalised by the
development of forms of structural realism. These urge a shift in focus from the object …

When it comes to knowledge about the scientific pasts that might have been–the so-called
'counterfactual'history of science–historians can either debate its possibility or get on with …

Over the last six decades there has been a consistent trend in the philosophy literature to
emphasize the role of causes in scientific explanation. The emphasis on causes even …

There are two motivations commonly ascribed to historical actors for taking up statistics: to
reduce complicated data to a mean value (eg, Quetelet), and to take account of diversity (eg …

Abstract Gregor Mendel's paper “Experiments on Plant Hybrids”(1866) has become a
paradigmatic case in the historiography of the life sciences because production and …

This chapter traverses contemporary understandings of the genetic architecture of human
disease, and explores the clinical implications of the current state of knowledge. Many …

Following Thomas P. Hughes's systems approach in the history of technology, and making
use of previously unexamined sources, this dissertation seeks to show that the development …