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  1. Mendel’s use of mathematical modelling: ratios, predictions and the appeal to tradition.Amir Teicher - 2014 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 36 (2):187-208.
    The seventh section of Gregor Mendel’s famous 1866 paper contained a peculiar mathematical model, which predicted the expected ratios between the number of constant and hybrid types, assuming self-pollination continued throughout further generations. This model was significant for Mendel’s argumentation and was perceived as inseparable from his entire theory at the time. A close examination of this model reveals that it has several perplexing aspects which have not yet been systematically scrutinized. The paper analyzes those aspects, dispels some common misconceptions (...)
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  • Contributions to the theory and evolution of Mendelian generalisations.Jan Wilczyński - 1942 - Acta Biotheoretica 6 (1-2):97-152.
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  • Exploring scientific misconduct: Isolated individuals, impure institutions, or an inevitable idiom of modern science? [REVIEW]Benjamin K. Sovacool - 2008 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 5 (4):271-282.
    This paper identifies three distinct narratives concerning scientific misconduct: a narrative of “individual impurity” promoted by those wishing to see science self-regulated; a narrative of “institutional impropriety” promoted by those seeking greater external control of science; and a narrative of “structural crisis” among those critiquing the entire process of research itself. The paper begins by assessing contemporary definitions and estimates of scientific misconduct. It emphasizes disagreements over such definitions and estimates as a way to tease out tension and controversy over (...)
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  • Mendel and methodology.Robert Scott Root-Bernstein - 1983 - History of Science 21 (3):275-295.
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  • Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics.Gregory Radick - 2022 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 93 (C):39-46.
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  • Legumes’ contributions to genetic research, a historical perspective from Mendelism up to massive sequencing.Marcelino Pérez de la Vega - 2016 - Arbor 192 (779):a318.
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  • Statistics is not enough: revisiting Ronald A. Fisher’s critique (1936) of Mendel’s experimental results (1866).Avital Pilpel - 2007 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38 (3):618-626.
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  • The Gregor Mendel controversy: Early issues of goodness-of-fit and recent issues of genetic linkage.Walter W. Piegorsch - 1986 - History of Science 24 (2):173-182.
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  • The Paradigmatic Mendel at the Sesquicentennial of “Versuche über Pflantzen-Hybriden”: Introduction to the Thematic Issue.Erik L. Peterson & Kostas Kampourakis - 2015 - Science & Education 24 (1-2):1-8.
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  • Science studies and Mendel's paradigm.Vítězslav Orel - 2010 - Perspectives on Science 18 (2):pp. 226-241.
    Steve Fuller has argued that a scientific discovery will not be recognized unless it can be justified within the history of the relevant science. He cites Mendel's work on genetics, which was not recognized until thirty-five years after its publication, as an example. This essay argues that Mendel's work comes out of the tradition of work by both agricultural breeders and academics in nineteenth century Austria. Thus, Fuller is mistaken, and one must look elsewhere for the neglect of Mendel's work. (...)
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  • Mendel’s Research Legacy in the Broader Historical Network.Vítězslav Orel & Margaret H. Peaslee - 2015 - Science & Education 24 (1-2):9-27.
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  • The Evolutionary Analysis: Apparent Error, Certified Belief, and the Defects of Asymmetry.Alfred Nordmann - 1994 - Perspectives on Science 2 (2):131-175.
    This article scrutinizes in detail much of the extant historiography on the controversy between biometricians and Mendelians, considering in particular how this controversy is related to the evolutionary synthesis. While the historiographic critique concentrates on William Provine’s standard account, it also extends to the proposal by Donald MacKenzie and Barry Barnes. What Provine and these sociologists of scientific knowledge have in common is a set of unquestioned assumptions about the nature of Darwinism, about William Bateson’s anti-Darwinism, and about the very (...)
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  • Darwinians at war Bateson's place in histories of Darwinism.Alfred Nordmann - 1992 - Synthese 91 (1-2):53 - 72.
    The controversy between Biometricians and Mendelians has been called an inexplicable embarrassment since it revolved around the mistaken identification of Mendelian genetics with non-Darwinian saltationism, a mistake traced back to the non-Darwinian William Bateson, who introduced Mendelian analysis to British science. The following paper beings to unravel this standard account of the controversy by raising a simple question: Given that Bateson embraced evolution by natural selection and that he studied the causes of variation within a broadly Darwinian framework of problems (...)
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  • The real objective of Mendel's paper.Floyd V. Monaghan & Alain F. Corcos - 1990 - Biology and Philosophy 5 (3):267-292.
    According to the traditional account Mendel's paper on pea hybrids reported a study of inheritance and its laws. Hence, Mendel came to be known as The Father of Genetics. This paper demonstrates that, in fact, Mendel's objective in his research was finding the empirical laws which describe the formation of hybrids and the development of their offspring over several generations. Having found these laws (and not the laws of inheritance that he is generally credited with) he proposed a theoretical scheme (...)
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  • Karl pearson's mathematization of inheritance: From ancestral heredity to Mendelian genetics (1895–1909).M. Eileen Magnello - 1998 - Annals of Science 55 (1):35-94.
    Summary Long-standing claims have been made for nearly the entire twentieth century that the biometrician, Karl Pearson, and his colleague, W. F. R. Weldon, rejected Mendelism as a theory of inheritance. It is shown that at the end of the nineteenth century Pearson considered various theories of inheritance (including Francis Galton's law of ancestral heredity for characters underpinned by continuous variation), and by 1904 he ?accepted the fundamental idea of Mendel? as a theory of inheritance for discontinuous variation. Moreover, in (...)
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  • Mendel and the Path to Genetics: Portraying Science as a Social Process.Kostas Kampourakis - 2013 - Science & Education 22 (2):293-324.
    Textbook descriptions of the foundations of Genetics give the impression that besides Mendel’s no other research on heredity took place during the nineteenth century. However, the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859, and the criticism that it received, placed the study of heredity at the centre of biological thought. Consequently, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin himself, Francis Galton, William Keith Brooks, Carl von Nägeli, August Weismann, and Hugo de Vries attempted to develop theories of heredity under an evolutionary perspective, (...)
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  • The Scholastic Origins of Mendel's Concepts.H. Kalmus - 1983 - History of Science 21 (1):61-83.
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  • Determinism and Underdetermination in Genetics: Implications for Students’ Engagement in Argumentation and Epistemic Practices.María Pilar Jiménez-Aleixandre - 2014 - Science & Education 23 (2):465-484.
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  • A survey of newly appointed consultants' attitudes towards research fraud.D. Geggie - 2001 - Journal of Medical Ethics 27 (5):344-346.
    Objective—To determine the prevalence of, and attitudes towards, observed and personal research misconduct among newly appointed medical consultants. Design—Questionnaire study.Setting—Mersey region, United Kingdom.Participants—Medical consultants appointed between Jan 1995 and Jan 2000 in seven different hospital trusts (from lists provided by each hospital's personnel department). Main outcome measures—Reported observed misconduct, reported past personal misconduct and reported possible future misconduct.Results—One hundred and ninety-four replies were received (a response rate of 63.6%); 55.7% of respondents had observed some form of research misconduct; 5.7% of (...)
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  • Galton's ‘Law of Ancestral Heredity’: Its Influence on the Early Development of Human Genetics.Peter Froggatt & N. C. Nevin - 1971 - History of Science 10 (1):1-27.
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  • Gemmules and Elements: On Darwin’s and Mendel’s Concepts and Methods in Heredity. [REVIEW]Ute Deichmann - 2010 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 41 (1):85-112.
    Inheritance and variation were a major focus of Charles Darwin’s studies. Small inherited variations were at the core of his theory of organic evolution by means of natural selection. He put forward a developmental theory of heredity (pangenesis) based on the assumption of the existence of material hereditary particles. However, unlike his proposition of natural selection as a new mechanism for evolutionary change, Darwin’s highly speculative and contradictory hypotheses on heredity were unfruitful for further research. They attempted to explain many (...)
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  • Gemmules and Elements: On Darwin’s and Mendel’s Concepts and Methods in Heredity.Ute Deichmann - 2010 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 41 (1):85-112.
    Inheritance and variation were a major focus of Charles Darwin’s studies. Small inherited variations were at the core of his theory of organic evolution by means of natural selection. He put forward a developmental theory of heredity (pangenesis) based on the assumption of the existence of material hereditary particles. However, unlike his proposition of natural selection as a new mechanism for evolutionary change, Darwin’s highly speculative and contradictory hypotheses on heredity were unfruitful for further research. They attempted to explain many (...)
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  • Mendel's Theory: Its Context and Plausibility.Margaret Campbell - 1982 - Centaurus 26 (1):38-69.
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  • Explanations of Mendel's Results.Margaret Campbell - 1976 - Centaurus 20 (2):159-174.
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  • Gregor Mendel: an opponent of descent with modification.L. A. Callender - 1988 - History of Science 26 (1):41-75.
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  • Natural selection according to Darwin: cause or effect?Ben Bradley - 2022 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 44 (2):1-26.
    In the 1940s, the ‘modern synthesis’ (MS) of Darwinism and genetics cast genetic mutation and recombination as the source of variability from which environmental events naturally select the fittest, such ‘natural selection’ constituting the cause of evolution. Recent biology increasingly challenges this view by casting genes as followers and awarding the leading role in the genesis of adaptations to the agency and plasticity of developing phenotypes—making natural selection a consequence of other causal processes. Both views of natural selection claim to (...)
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