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  1. Unifying biology: The evolutionary synthesis and evolutionary biology.V. B. Smocovitis - 1992 - Journal of the History of Biology 25 (1):1-65.
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  • Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century.Garland Allen - 1976 - Journal of the History of Biology 9 (2):323-323.
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  • Scientific Change, Emerging Specialties, and Research Schools.Gerald L. Geison - 1981 - History of Science 19 (1):20-40.
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  • Rethinking the Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies.Joe Cain - 2009 - Journal of the History of Biology 42 (4):621 - 648.
    I propose we abandon the unit concept of "the evolutionary synthesis". There was much more to evolutionary studies in the 1920s and 1930s than is suggested in our commonplace narratives of this object in history. Instead, four organising threads capture much of evolutionary studies at this time. First, the nature of species and the process of speciation were dominating, unifying subjects. Second, research into these subjects developed along four main lines, or problem complexes: variation, divergence, isolation, and selection. Some calls (...)
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  • An Entangled Bank: The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology.Joel B. Hagen & Gregg Mitman - 1994 - Journal of the History of Biology 27 (2):349-357.
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  • Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880-1915.Jane Maienschein - 1992 - Journal of the History of Biology 25 (1):157-162.
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  • Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life.Robert E. Kohler - 1995 - Journal of the History of Biology 28 (1):167-170.
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  • There and back again, or the problem of locality in biodiversity surveys.Ayelet Shavit & James Griesemer - 2009 - Philosophy of Science 76 (3):273-294.
    We argue that ‘locality’, perhaps the most mundane term in ecology, holds a basic ambiguity: two concepts of space—nomothetic and idiographic—which are both necessary for a rigorous resurvey to “the same” locality in the field, are committed to different practices with no common measurement. A case study unfolds the failure of the standard assumption that an exogenous grid of longitude and latitude, as fine‐grained as one wishes, suffices for revisiting a species locality. We briefly suggest a scale‐dependent “resolution” for this (...)
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  • Collaboration in the museum of vertebrate zoology.James R. Griesemer & Elihu M. Gerson - 1993 - Journal of the History of Biology 26 (2):185-203.
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  • Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology.Sharon E. Kingsland - 1986 - Journal of the History of Biology 19 (2):313-314.
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  • The Role of Isolation in Evolution: George J. Romanes and John T. Gulick.John Lesch - 1975 - Isis 66 (4):483-503.
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  • Adaptation and the Importance of Local Culture: Creating a Research School at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.Ronald Rainger - 2003 - Journal of the History of Biology 36 (3):461 - 500.
    In the 1930s and 1940s a research school developed among scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. Although that was due in large part to Harald U. Sverdrup, a prominent Norwegian oceanographer who served as Scripps director from 1936 to 1948, this paper emphasizes the adaptive, evolving character of that research school. Conditions at Scripps prior to Sverdrup's arrival influenced his efforts in successfully organizing a group of scientists. Once at Scripps Sverdrup proved to be an (...)
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  • Essay review: Museums: Revisiting sites in the history of the natural sciences.Sally Gregory Kohlstedt - 1995 - Journal of the History of Biology 28 (1):151-166.
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  • Modeling in the museum: On the role of Remnant models in the work of Joseph Grinnell. [REVIEW]James R. Griesemer - 1990 - Biology and Philosophy 5 (1):3-36.
    Accounts of the relation between theories and models in biology concentrate on mathematical models. In this paper I consider the dual role of models as representations of natural systems and as a material basis for theorizing. In order to explicate the dual role, I develop the concept of a remnant model, a material entity made from parts of the natural system(s) under study. I present a case study of an important but neglected naturalist, Joseph Grinnell, to illustrate the extent to (...)
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  • On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West.Barbara R. Stein - 2002 - Journal of the History of Biology 35 (1):187-188.
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