Every day it seems the media focus on yet another new development in biology--gene
therapy, the human genome project, the creation of new varieties of animals and plants …

In science, more than elsewhere, a word is expected to mean what it says, nothing more,
nothing less. But scientific discourse is neither different nor separable from ordinary …

The great Swiss psychologist and theorist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) had much to say about
the developing mind. He also had plenty to say about his own development, much of it, as …

▪ Abstract French genetics had unusual beginnings. There are clear indications that the
French biological establishment resisted Mendelian genetics strenuously from about 1910 to …

Unless we recognize our innate biases in animal model choice, we limit our potential as
experimenters. Two biases seem common from my observations. First is the …

Dying on the Vine chronicles 150 years of scientific warfare against the grapevine's worst
enemy: phylloxera. In a book that is highly relevant for the wine industry today, George Gale …

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Institutions in the commercial sector, especially those marketing seeds for agricultural use,
have long had an interest in understanding heredity. Much of what we know of this …

This essay draws a new picture of the science of bacteria in its' golden age', circa 1880-
1900: the organization of its knowledge and practice, its germ theory of disease, the …

The article reevaluates the reception of Mendelism in France, and more generally considers
the complex relationship between Mendelism and plant breeding in the first half on the 20th …