Rebels of Life: Iconoclastic Biologists of the Twentieth Century

Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1: On Rebels, Icons, and the Value of Dissent -- Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich

Chapter 2: Alfred Russel Wallace, The Discovery of Natural Selection, and the Origins of Humankind: The Ultimate Rebel? -- Michael Ruse

Chapter 3: Rebel With Two Causes: Hans Driesch -- Garland E. Allen

Chapter 4: Wilhelm Johannsen: A Rebel or a Diehard? -- Raphael Falk

Chapter 5: Raymond Arthur Dart: The Man Who Unwillingly Ushered in a Revolution in the Evolution of Humankind -- Philip Tobias

Chapter 6: In Weismann’s Footsteps: The Cyto-rebellion of C.D. Darlington -- Oren Harman

Chapter 7: Striking the Hornet’s Nest: Richard Goldschmidt’s Rejection of the Particulate Gene -- Michael R. Dietrich

Chapter 8: Rebellion and iconoclasm in the life and science of Barbara McClintock -- Nathaniel Comfort

Chapter 9: Challenging the Protein Dogma of the Gene: Oswald T. Avery – A Revolutionary Conservative -- Ute Deichmann

Chapter 10: Roger Sperry and Integrative Action in the Nervous System -- Tim Horder

Chapter 11: Leon Croizat: A Radical Biogeographer -- David Hull

Chapter 12: Dogma, Heresy, and Conversion: Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards’ Crusade and the Levels of Selection Debate -- Mark Borrello

Chapter 13: Peter Mitchell: Changing the Face of Bioenergetics -- John Prebble and Bruce Weber

Chapter 14: Howard Temin: Rebel of Evidence and Reason -- Daniel Kevles

Chapter 15: Motoo Kimura and the Rise of Neutralism -- James F. Crow

Chapter 16: Against the Grain: The Science and Life of William D. Hamilton -- Ullica Segerstrale

Chapter 17: The Iconoclastic Research Program of Carl Woese -- Jan Sapp

Chapter 18: Stephen Jay Gould, Darwinian Iconoclast? -- David Sepkoski

Chapter 19: Culture and Gender do not Dissolve into how Scientists “read” Nature: Thelma Rowell’s Heterodoxy -- Vinciane Despret

Chapter 20: Bringing Statistical Methods to Community and Evolutionary Ecology: Daniel S. Simberloff -- William Dritschilo

Epilogue: Legitimation is the Name of the Game -- R.C. Lewontin