Volume 55, Issue 2

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August 2022

Special Section on New Styles of Thought and Practices: Biology in the Interwar Period (articles 1-6)

Issue Editors:

Jan Baedke,
Christina Brandt

10 articles in this issue

Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology
Jan Baedke
Christina Brandt
Introduction Open access 19 August 2022 Pages: 209 - 217
“What is Dead May Not Die”: Locating Marginalized Concepts Among Ordinary Biologists
Erik L. Peterson
Crystal Hall
Original Research 30 September 2020 Pages: 219 - 251
Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones
Christina Brandt
Original Research Open access 05 August 2022 Pages: 253 - 283
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period
Christina Brandt
Original Research Open access 19 August 2022 Pages: 285 - 320
Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–1932
Julia Gruevska
Original Research Open access 09 June 2022 Pages: 321 - 347
Physicochemical Biology and Knowledge Transfer: The Study of the Mechanism of Photosynthesis Between the Two World Wars
Kärin Nickelsen
OriginalPaper 01 April 2019 Pages: 349 - 377
JHB’s Darwin Collection
Marsha Richmond
Karen Rader
Editorial 30 June 2022 Pages: 379 - 380
Reflections on Darwin Historiography
Janet Browne
Historiographical Essay 15 June 2022 Pages: 381 - 393
Part of 1 collection:

Darwin Collection
The Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters
Paul White
Historiographical Essay Open access 24 June 2022 Pages: 395 - 401
Part of 1 collection:

Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project and Pedagogy
Bernard Lightman
Historiographical Essay 24 June 2022 Pages: 403 - 409
Part of 1 collection:

Darwin Collection

Volume 55, Issue 2

Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology

“What is Dead May Not Die”: Locating Marginalized Concepts Among Ordinary Biologists

Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones

Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period

Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–1932

Physicochemical Biology and Knowledge Transfer: The Study of the Mechanism of Photosynthesis Between the Two World Wars

JHB’s Darwin Collection

Reflections on Darwin Historiography

The Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters

The Darwin Correspondence Project and Pedagogy

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