Correction to: Journal of the History of Biology (2019) 52(2):239–324 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-018-9549-4

Please note that this article belongs to the Special Issue on “New Styles of Thought and Practices: Biology in the Interwar Period,” guest editors Jan Baedke and Christina Brandt, but was included in volume 52, issue 2, Summer 2019 by mistake. It should be regarded as part of this special issue collection of articles.