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The Historiography of Molecular Biology

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This chapter reviews the historiography of molecular biology from its early “classical period” through 1970s and 1980s into the genomic era beginning in the 1990s. I emphasize the need to find connections between the “classical period” and more contemporary genomic and post-genomic histories. I argue that synthestic and longue durree histories are essential for capturing the trends embodied in molecular biology research.

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Morange, M. (2018). The Historiography of Molecular Biology. In: Dietrich, M., Borrello, M., Harman, O. (eds) Handbook of the Historiography of Biology. Historiographies of Science, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74456-8_11-1

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