Journal of the History of Biology最新文献

Patrick Spero, André Michaux and Thomas Jefferson and the Conspiracy of 1793, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780813952192, 334 pp. 帕特里克·斯佩罗，安德烈·米肖和托马斯·杰斐逊与1793年的阴谋，夏洛茨维尔：弗吉尼亚大学出版社，2024,ISBN: 9780813952192, 334页。

IF 0.7 1区哲学

Journal of the History of Biology Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-025-09824-9

Charlotte Porter

引用次数: 0

The Industry of Wallace and the Wallace Industry. 华莱士工业和华莱士工业。

IF 0.7 1区哲学

Journal of the History of Biology Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-025-09820-z

Vassiliki Betty Smocovits

引用次数: 0

Wallace Reconsidered. 华莱士重新考虑。

IF 0.7 1区哲学

Journal of the History of Biology Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-025-09821-y

Charles H Smith

引用次数: 0

The Contributions-and Collapse-of Lamarckism in Pasteurian Molecular Biology: 2. Enzymatic Adaptation, 1920-1965. 拉马克主义在巴氏分子生物学中的贡献与瓦解：2。酶适应，1920-1965。

IF 0.7 1区哲学

Journal of the History of Biology Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-025-09818-7

Laurent Loison

{"title":"The Contributions-and Collapse-of Lamarckism in Pasteurian Molecular Biology: 2. Enzymatic Adaptation, 1920-1965.","authors":"Laurent Loison","doi":"10.1007/s10739-025-09818-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-025-09818-7","url":null,"abstract":"This article is the second part of an elucidation of the complex relationship between Lamarckism (broadly speaking) and the rise of the French school of molecular biology at the Pasteur Institute. In the first part, Jean Gayon, Richard Burian and this author (2017) showed how the characterization of the bacteriophage's development cycle was first theorized on the basis of several Lamarckian conceptions of the inheritance of acquired characters, before it came to be understood in strictly molecular and genetic terms by André Lwoff and then François Jacob after the Second World War. This article focuses on the second line of research that led to the lactose operon model, that of enzymatic adaptation. This history does not show the exact same pattern: this time, the issue of Lamarckian heredity played a less important (yet still significant) role. To a greater extent, the question of finality and finalism was the main concern of the work of Jacques Monod, Melvin Cohn and their collaborators. This article examines how Monod took up the challenge of a Lamarckian finalism that was typical of French interwar biology and how, at the end of the 1950s, he had to radically rethink the place of finality in the characterization of molecular structures. This article also reconstructs the theoretical and experimental context in which the concept of \"cellular memory\" originated, a concept that could easily have fit with Lamarckian interpretations. Thus, in the field of enzymatic adaptation too, certain aspects of Lamarckism played a key role as a challenge for the nascent molecular biology.","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Atomic Botany: The Botanical Career of Janice Carson Beatley, and the Flora, Vegetation, and Ecology of the Nevada Test Site in Cold War United States (1959-1973). 原子植物学：Janice Carson Beatley的植物学生涯，以及冷战时期美国内华达试验场的植物群、植被和生态（1959-1973）。

IF 0.7 1区哲学

Journal of the History of Biology Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-025-09819-6

Tod F Stuessy, Ronald Pilatowski

{"title":"Atomic Botany: The Botanical Career of Janice Carson Beatley, and the Flora, Vegetation, and Ecology of the Nevada Test Site in Cold War United States (1959-1973).","authors":"Tod F Stuessy, Ronald Pilatowski","doi":"10.1007/s10739-025-09819-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-025-09819-6","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the career of Janice Carson Beatley (1918-1987), a botanist and plant ecologist, who moved into the male-dominated field of nuclear studies to investigate the flora, vegetation and ecology of the Nevada Test Site between 1959 and 1973. It examines her background, training, her employment history, and her relationship with plant ecologist John \"Jack\" Wolfe, who himself had accepted a position in the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1958. It explores her scientific work, which included creating an inventory of the flora and vegetation of the region, but also assessing the damage from radioactive fallout, and inferring basic ecosystem processes in this desert region, which covered parts of the Mojave and Great Basin Deserts. She made major contributions to understanding these ecosystems, especially the precise role of precipitation as an environmental trigger for the development of the vegetation. By the end, she had established some sixty-eight permanent plots and developed a herbarium of approximately 13,500 mounted specimens, many of which were deposited at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Toward the end of her work with the AEC, she became embittered by a sense of having been marginalized and not accorded proper appreciation for her scientific contributions. Her career illustrates difficulties that confronted women scientists as they attempted to establish themselves in fields dominated by men, such as nuclear energy.","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144111771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Correction: A "Mean Quarrelsome Spirit:" Controversy in British Systematics, 1822-1836. 更正：“卑劣的争强好胜的精神”：英国系统神学的争论，1822-1836。

IF 0.7 1区哲学

Journal of the History of Biology Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-025-09826-7

Jordan Thomas Mursinna

引用次数: 0

Imperial Microbiology: The National Collection of Type Cultures and the Management of Microorganisms, 1916-1922. 帝国微生物学：1916-1922年国家类型培养和微生物管理的收集。

IF 0.7 1区哲学

Journal of the History of Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-025-09809-8

James F Stark

引用次数: 0

Hyung Wook Park, Creationism in South Korean Culture: Science, Religion, and the Struggle against Evolution, London: Routledge, 2024, ISBN: 9781032757148, 222 pp. 朴亨旭，《韩国文化中的神创论：科学、宗教和反对进化论的斗争》，伦敦：劳特利奇出版社，2024,ISBN: 9781032757148, 222页。

IF 0.7 1区哲学

Journal of the History of Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-025-09812-z

Xiaoxing Jin

引用次数: 0

Andreas Daum, Alexander Von Humboldt: A Concise Biography, Trans. Robert Savage, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780691247366, 208 pp. 安德烈亚斯·道姆：《亚历山大·冯·洪堡简传》，英译。罗伯特·萨维奇，普林斯顿：普林斯顿大学出版社，2024,ISBN: 9780691247366, 208页。

IF 0.7 1区哲学

Journal of the History of Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-025-09815-w

Frederick Gregory

引用次数: 0

Christian Warren, Starved for Light: The long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780226151939, 288 pp. 克里斯蒂安·沃伦，渴望光：佝偻病和维生素D缺乏症的长阴影，芝加哥：芝加哥大学出版社，2024,ISBN: 9780226151939, 288页。

IF 0.7 1区哲学

Journal of the History of Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-025-09816-9

Daniel Freund

引用次数: 0