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Publications
In Progress
Richard Goldschmidt's Heresies: A Biography of a Bad Reputation. (In Progress).
The Educated Eye: Visual Pedagogy in the Life Sciences. Nancy Anderson and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. (In Preparation).
In Press
Gregory Davis, Michael R. Dietrich, and David Jacobs, "Homeotic Mutants and the Assimilation of Developmental Genetics into the Evolutionary Synthesis," in Joe Cain and Michael Ruse, Eds., Descended from Darwin: Insights into American Evolutionary Studies, 1925-1950 (Philadephia, PA: American Philosophical Society, In Press).
“The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change,” Harvard Companion to Evolution. Michael Ruse and Joe Travis, Eds., (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009/In Press).
“Microevolution and Macroevolution Are Governed by the Same Processes” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. Francisco J. Ayala and Robert Arp, Editors. (Blackwell Publishing, In press).
Michael R. Dietrich and Roberta Millstein, "The Role of Causal Processes in the Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories," Philosophy of Science (2008/In Press).
2008
Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich,Editors. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008).
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, “Dynamic Dissent: Iconoclasts, both visionary and misguided, have advanced modern biology,“ The Chronicle Review 54 (July 11, 2008), B7-8.
“Genetics,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Peter Stearns, Ed. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008).
“Molecular Evolution,” in A Companion to Philosophy of Biology, Sohotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski, Eds. (Blackwell, 2008).Book Review, “Francisco Ayala, Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion,” National Center for Science Education Newsletter 28 (2008), 33-34.
2007
Michael R. Dietrich and Robert Skipper, “Manipulating Underdetermination in Scientific Controversy: The Case of the Molecular Clock, “ Perspectives on Science 15 (2007), 295-326.
“Representando el objeto de la controversia. El caso del reloj molecular (Representing the Object of Controversy: The Case of the Molecular Clock),” Variedad Sin Limites: Las Representaciones en la Ciencia, Edna Suarez, Ed. (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) y Editorial Limusa, S. A. de C. V., 2007), 351-366.
Reprinted. "Representing the Object of Controversy: The Case of the Molecular Clock," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 29 (2007), 23-38.
“A Just-So Story for Symbolic Thought?,” in Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Ed., Moral Psychology, Volume 1: The Evolution of Moralty (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), 299-301.“Johannes Holtfreter,” The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2007).
Michael R. Dietrich and James F. Crow, “Motoo Kimura,” The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2007).2006
“Three Perspectives on Neutrality and Drift in Molecular Evolution,” Philosophy of Science 73 (2006), 666-677.
Book Review, “William Bechtel, Discovering Cell Mechanisms: The Creation of Modern Cell Biology,” Quarterly Review of Biology 81 (2006), 392.
“The History of Genetics Online,” The Mendel Newsletter 15 (2006), 27-30.
2005
“Two Men Who Invented Genetics: Essay Review of Oren Harman, The Man Who Invented Chromosomes: The Life of Cyril Darlington and Paul Berg and Maxine Singer, George Beadle: An Uncommon Farmer,” Minerva 43 (2005), 429 - 433.
“Foundations of Genetics at the Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project,” The Mendel Newsletter 13 (2005), 9.
Book review, “David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor, Eds., Writing the Future: Progress and Evolution,” Quarterly Review of Biology 80 (2005), 119.
2004
Book review, “Jan Sapp, Genesis: The Evolution of Biology,” Quarterly Review of Biology , 79 (2004): 305.
Book review, “The Postgenomic Shipwright: Antoine Danchin’s The Delphic Boat: What Genomes Tell Us,” Nature Genetics, 36 (2004), 318.
Book review, “Lewis I. Held, Jr., Imaginal Discs: The Genetic and Cellular Logic of Pattern Formation,” The Mendel Newsletter 13 (2004), 19.
2003
2002
"History of the Nature of the Gene," Genetics. Richard Robinson, Ed. (New York, NY: Macmillan Reference, 2002).
Marsha L. Richmond and Michael R. Dietrich, "Richard Goldschmidt and the Crossing-Over Controversy, " Genetics 161 (2002), 477-482.Book review, “Embryology in Wax: Nick Hopwood’s Embryos in Wax," Trends in Genetics 18 (2002) 658.
2001
Michael R. Dietrich, C. Robertson McClung, and Mark McPeek, "Darwinian Evolution Across the Disciplines," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 23 (2001), 337-338.
Book review, “Jennifer Terry, An American Obsession: Science, Medicine and Homosexuality in Modern Society,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 22 (2001), 224-225.
2000
"Of Moths and Men: Theo Lang and the Persistence of Richard Goldschmidt's Theory of the Genetics of Homosexuality, 1916-1960," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 22 (2000), 219-247.
"The Problem of the Gene," Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris 323 (2000), 1139-1146
"From Gene to Genetic Hierarchy: Richard Goldschmidt and the Problem of the Gene," The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives. Peter Beurton, Raphael Falk, and Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 91-114.
Book review, "R. J. Russell, W. R. Stoeger, S.J., and F. J. Ayala (eds.), Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 22 (2000), 126-127.
1998
"The Richard Benedict Goldschmidt Papers," The Mendel Newsletter, New Series 7 (1998), pp. 13-15.
"Molecular Biology," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Volume 6. Edward Craig, Ed. (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 458-461.
Book review, "V. B. Smocovitis, Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology," Journal of the History of Biology 31 (1998): 289-291.
Book review, "V. Orel, Gregor Mendel: The First Geneticist," Isis 89 (1998): 143-144.
1997
Book review, "Anne Harrington, Re-Enchanted Science," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 27 (1997): 359.
1996
"Monte Carlo Experiments and the Defense of Diffusion Models in Molecular Population Genetics," Biology and Philosopy 11 (1996), 339-356.
1995
"Richard Goldschmidt's "Heresies" and the Evolutionary Synthesis," Journal of the History of Biology, 28 (1995), 431-461.
1994
Book review, "Elliot Sober, Philosophy of Biology," Teaching Philosophy 17 (1994): 375-377.
1993
"Underdetermination and the Limits of Interpretative Flexibility," Perspectives on Science, 1 (1993), 109-126.
1992
"Macromutation," in Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, E. F. Keller and E. A. Lloyd, eds. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), pp. 194-201.
