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A Biogeographical Debate at the Origins of Limnology in Switzerland and Italy: The Issue over Pelagic Fauna Between Pietro Pavesi and François-Alphonse Forel. 瑞士和意大利湖沼学起源时期的生物地理学辩论:Pietro Pavesi 和 François-Alphonse Forel 之间的远洋动物问题。
IF 0.7 1区 哲学 Q4 BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-024-09791-7
Pier Luigi Pireddu

This article explores the early biogeographical debates that shaped the beginning of limnology, focusing on the differences of opinion concerning the origins of pelagic fauna between two pioneering scientists: Pietro Pavesi and François-Alphonse Forel. The study examines how Pavesi's hypothesis of a marine origin for pelagic fauna contrasts with Forel's theory of passive distribution, situating their arguments within a broader Darwinian framework. The first part of the paper provides a historical overview of Italian limnology, highlighting Pavesi's contributions and interpreting Forel's writings to underscore the significance of discovering pelagic fauna in conceptualizing lakes as microcosms. The second part compares Pavesi's and Forel's hypotheses, emphasizing their impact on the scientific understanding of freshwater ecosystems. The importance of this discovery, in both historical and scientific contexts, lies in recognizing the presence of plankton in lakes as a crucial element for the mature formulation of ecological concepts, such as the ecosystem.

本文探讨了影响湖沼学开端的早期生物地理学辩论,重点是两位先驱科学家在远洋动物起源问题上的意见分歧:皮埃特罗-帕维维(Pietro Pavesi)和弗朗索瓦-阿尔方斯-福尔(François-Alphonse Forel)。该研究探讨了 Pavesi 关于浮游动物起源于海洋的假说与 Forel 的被动分布理论之间的对比,并将他们的论点置于更广泛的达尔文框架内。论文的第一部分概述了意大利湖沼学的历史,重点介绍了帕维西的贡献,并对福尔的著作进行了解读,以强调在将湖泊概念化为微观世界的过程中发现浮游动物的重要性。第二部分比较了 Pavesi 和 Forel 的假设,强调了他们对淡水生态系统科学认识的影响。从历史和科学角度来看,这一发现的重要性在于认识到湖泊中浮游生物的存在是生态系统等生态概念成熟形成的关键因素。
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Hey Hey We’re the Monkeys! An Essay Review of Gowan Dawson’s Monkey to Man 嘿嘿,我们是猴子!Gowan Dawson 的《从猴子到人》论文评论
IF 0.8 1区 哲学 Q4 BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-024-09786-4
Greg Priest
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Recapitulation, Heredity, and Freud's View of Human Nature. 复述、遗传和弗洛伊德的人性观。
IF 0.7 1区 哲学 Q4 BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-024-09784-6
Jonah Branding

There's something strange about Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1930). Biologically, Freud was a Neo-Lamarckian, who believed in both the modification of organisms through need and the inheritance of acquired characteristics. However, in Civilization, Freud argued that because human nature is immutable, society has dim odds of improving substantially. Lamarckians, of course, rejected that any species-nature is immutable, as species can always be transformed via the inheritance of acquired characteristics. In fact, many of Freud's Viennese contemporaries-such as Wilhelm Reich, Julius Tandler, and Paul Kammerer-took their Lamarckism to license precisely the sorts of radical social projects Freud deemed impossible. Thus the Freud of Civilization helped himself to a rigid view of human nature which, given his associated biological views, he seemingly ought to have rejected. In this paper, I explain this apparent inconsistency, and suggest Freud resolved it in the following way: Freud was not merely a Lamarckian, but also a strong and peculiar kind of recapitulationist, who believed stages of psychological development both recapitulate phylogeny, and "remain with us" throughout both individual lives and future species-history. I suggest Freud's recapitulationism supposed a certain inertia: what occurred in phylogenetic history cannot un-occur, and therefore there are aspects of our nature which we cannot un-acquire. In this way, Freud reached a rigid conception of human nature despite his Lamarckism.

弗洛伊德的《文明及其不满》(1930 年)有些奇怪。从生物学角度看,弗洛伊德是新拉马克主义者,他既相信生物会因需要而改变,也相信后天特征的遗传。然而,在《文明》一书中,弗洛伊德认为,由于人性是不可改变的,因此社会大幅改善的可能性微乎其微。当然,拉马克主义者否认任何物种的本性是一成不变的,因为物种总是可以通过后天特征的遗传而改变。事实上,许多与弗洛伊德同时代的维也纳人,如威廉-赖希(Wilhelm Reich)、朱利叶斯-坦德勒(Julius Tandler)和保罗-卡默勒(Paul Kammerer),正是利用他们的拉马克主义来支持弗洛伊德认为不可能实现的激进社会项目。因此,"文明的弗洛伊德 "帮助自己形成了一种僵化的人性观,而根据他的相关生物学观点,他似乎本应摒弃这种人性观。在本文中,我将解释这种明显的不一致,并建议弗洛伊德通过以下方式解决这一问题:弗洛伊德不仅是拉马克主义者,还是一个强烈而独特的重现论者,他认为心理发展的各个阶段都重现了系统发育,并在个体生命和未来的物种历史中 "与我们同在"。我认为弗洛伊德的再现论假定了某种惯性:在系统发育历史中发生的事情不可能不发生,因此我们的本性中也有我们无法不获得的方面。这样,尽管弗洛伊德奉行拉马克主义,但他对人类本性的认识是僵化的。
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How Phenograms and Cladograms Became Molecular Phylogenetic Trees. 表型图和支系图是如何成为分子系统树的
IF 0.7 1区 哲学 Q4 BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-024-09782-8
Nina Kranke

Tree diagrams are the prevailing form of visualization in biological classification and phylogenetics. Already during the time of the so-called Systematist Wars from the mid-1960s until the 1980s most journal articles and textbooks published by systematists contained tree diagrams. Although this episode of systematics is well studied by historians and philosophers of biology, most analyses prioritize scientific theories over practices and tend to emphasize conflicting theoretical assumptions. In this article, I offer an alternative perspective by viewing the conflict through the lens of representational practices with a case study on tree diagrams that were used by numerical taxonomists (phenograms) and cladists (cladograms). I argue that the current state of molecular phylogenetics should not be interpreted as the result of a competition of views within systematics. Instead, molecular phylogenetics arose independently of systematics and elements of cladistics and phenetics were integrated into the framework of molecular phylogenetics, facilitated by the compatibility of phenetic and cladistic practices with the quantitative approach of molecular phylogenetics. My study suggests that this episode of scientific change is more complex than common narratives of battles and winners or conflicts and compromises. Today, cladograms are still used and interpreted as specific types of molecular phylogenetic trees. While phenograms and cladograms represented different forms of knowledge during the time of the Systematist Wars, today they are both used to represent evolutionary relationships. This indicates that diagrams are versatile elements of scientific practice that can change their meaning, depending on the context of use within theoretical frameworks.

树状图是生物分类学和系统发生学中最常用的可视化形式。从 20 世纪 60 年代中期到 80 年代的所谓 "系统学战争 "期间,系统学家出版的大多数期刊文章和教科书都包含树图。尽管生物学历史学家和哲学家对系统学的这一插曲进行了深入研究,但大多数分析都将科学理论置于实践之上,并倾向于强调相互冲突的理论假设。在本文中,我提供了另一种视角,通过对数字分类学家(表图)和支系学家(支系图)使用的树图进行案例研究,从表征实践的角度来看待这一冲突。我认为,分子系统发生学的现状不应被解释为系统学内部观点竞争的结果。相反,分子系统发育学是独立于系统学而产生的,支系学和表型学的要素被整合到分子系统发育学的框架中,表型学和支系学的实践与分子系统发育学的定量方法相兼容,从而促进了分子系统发育学的发展。我的研究表明,这一科学变革的插曲要比常见的战斗和胜利者或冲突和妥协的叙述更为复杂。今天,支系图仍被作为特定类型的分子系统发生树来使用和解释。虽然表型图和支系图在系统论战争时期代表了不同形式的知识,但今天它们都被用来表示进化关系。这表明,图表是科学实践中的多用途元素,可以根据理论框架内的使用环境改变其含义。
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"The Logic of Monsters:" Pere Alberch and the Evolutionary Significance of Experimental Teratology. "怪物的逻辑:"佩雷-阿尔贝奇和实验畸胎学的进化意义。
IF 0.7 1区 哲学 Q4 BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-024-09783-7
Juanma Sánchez Arteaga

This paper offers an historical introduction to Pere Alberch's evolutionary thought and his contributions to Evo-Devo, based on his unique approach to experimental teratology. We will take as our point of reference the teratogenic experiments developed by Alberch and Emily A. Gale during the 1980s, aimed at producing monstrous variants of frogs and salamanders. We will analyze his interpretation of the results of these experiments within the framework of the emergence of evolutionary developmental biology (or "Evo-Devo"). The aim is understand how Alberch interpreted teratological anomalies as highly revealing objects of study for understanding the development of organic form, not only in an ontogenetic sense-throughout embryonic development-but also phylogenetically-throughout the evolution of species. Alberch's interpretation of monsters reflects the influence of a long tradition of non-Darwinian evolutionary thought, which began in the nineteenth century and was continued in the twentieth century by people such as Richard Goldschmidt, Conrad H. Waddington, and Stephen Jay Gould. They all proposed various non-gradualist models of evolution, in which embryonic development played a central role. Following this tradition, Alberch argued that, in order to attain a correct understanding of the role of embryological development in evolution, it was necessary to renounce the gradualist paradigm associated with the Darwinian interpretation of evolution, which understood nature as a continuum. According to Alberch, the study of monstrous abnormalities was of great value in understanding how certain epigenetic restrictions in development could give rise to discontinuities and directionality in morphological transformations throughout evolution.

本文基于佩雷-阿尔贝奇独特的实验致畸学方法,从历史角度介绍了他的进化思想及其对进化论的贡献。我们将以阿尔伯奇和艾米莉-A-盖尔(Emily A. Gale)在 20 世纪 80 年代开发的致畸实验为参照,旨在制造青蛙和蝾螈的畸形变种。我们将在进化发育生物学(或称 "Evo-Devo")兴起的框架内分析他对这些实验结果的解释。我们的目的是要了解阿尔伯奇是如何将畸形异常解释为极具启发性的研究对象,从而理解有机体的发展,不仅是在本体论意义上--整个胚胎发育过程中,而且是在系统论意义上--整个物种进化过程中。阿尔伯奇对怪兽的解释反映了非达尔文进化论思想悠久传统的影响,这一传统始于 19 世纪,在 20 世纪由理查德-戈德施密特、康拉德-H-瓦丁顿和斯蒂芬-杰-古尔德等人延续了下来。他们都提出了各种非渐进主义的进化模式,其中胚胎发育起着核心作用。秉承这一传统,阿尔伯奇认为,为了正确理解胚胎发育在进化中的作用,有必要放弃与达尔文进化论相关的渐进主义范式,因为达尔文进化论将自然界理解为一个连续体。阿尔伯奇认为,畸形异常的研究对于理解发育过程中的某些表观遗传限制如何导致整个进化过程中形态转变的不连续性和方向性具有重要价值。
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The Study of Geographical Distribution in the Analysis of Domestication as an Evolutionary Process: Tensions in Alphonse de Candolle's Approach. 在分析作为进化过程的驯化时研究地理分布:阿尔方斯-德-坎多勒方法中的矛盾。
IF 0.7 1区 哲学 Q4 BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-024-09785-5
Miriam Álvarez-Tostado, Alfredo Bueno-Hernández, Ana Barahona, Fabiola Juárez-Barrera

Interest in the study of domesticated plants increased near the end of the 18th century, mainly because of their economic potential. In the 19th century, there was a new focus on the historical understanding of species, their origin, changes in their distribution, and their evolutionary history. Charles Darwin developed an extended interpretation of species domestication, considering variations, reproduction, inheritance, and modification as standard processes between wild and domesticated organisms. In this context, one relatively neglected aspect was the geographical distribution of domesticated species. Alphonse de Candolle addressed and developed in detail the question of the geographical origin of cultivated plants. Since 1836 Alphonse de Candolle had been studying the topic and obtained evidence that contributed to understanding aspects such as the center of origin, dispersion, competition, selection, and time of domestication. Although Darwin himself admitted that Géographie botanique raisonnée (de Candolle, Alphonse,de. Géographie botanique raisonnée; ou, exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l'epoque actuelle, 2ème tome. Paris: Masson.) was of great help to him in the development of his evolutionary theory, the importance of de Candolle's contribution is seldom recognized. Our purpose is to detail the dialogue between Alphonse de Candolle and Darwin on the geography of domesticated plants, to understand some of the most critical discussions that contributed to the reinterpretation of domestication under the Darwinian proposal of modified descent.

18 世纪末,人们对驯化植物研究的兴趣日益浓厚,这主要是因为它们具有经济潜力。19 世纪,人们开始关注对物种、物种起源、物种分布变化和物种进化史的历史理解。查尔斯-达尔文(Charles Darwin)对物种驯化进行了扩展解释,认为变异、繁殖、遗传和改造是野生生物和驯化生物之间的标准过程。在这一背景下,一个相对被忽视的方面是驯化物种的地理分布。阿尔方斯-德-康多勒(Alphonse de Candolle)详细探讨并发展了栽培植物的地理起源问题。自 1836 年以来,阿尔方斯-德-坎多勒一直在研究这一课题,并获得了有助于了解起源中心、散布、竞争、选择和驯化时间等方面的证据。尽管达尔文本人承认,《植物志》(de Candolle, Alphonse,de.Géographie botanique raisonnée; ou, exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l'epoque actuelle, 2ème tome.Paris:Masson.)对他进化理论的发展有很大帮助,但人们很少认识到 de Candolle 贡献的重要性。我们的目的是详细介绍阿尔方斯-德-坎多勒与达尔文之间关于驯化植物地理学的对话,以了解一些最关键的讨论,这些讨论有助于根据达尔文的改良血统建议重新解释驯化。
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"Pray Observe How Time Slips By:" Collaborators, Assistants, and the Background Dynamics in the Publication of Darwin's Cirripedia Project. "请观察时间是如何流逝的:"达尔文 Cirripedia 项目出版过程中的合作者、助手和背景动态。
IF 0.7 1区 哲学 Q4 BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-024-09781-9
Bruno Alves Valverde, Cristina de Campos

This study investigates nineteenth century natural history practices through the lens of the Actor-Network Theory, which posits that scientific practice is shaped by an intricate network of interactions between human and non-human actors. At the core of this research is the analysis of correspondence between Charles Darwin and his collaborators during the Cirripedia Project, which unveils a complex landscape of negotiations with illustrators, funders, specimen owners, and translators, among other stakeholders and interested parties. The study goes beyond the final outcomes of scientific research, delving into behind-the-scenes interactions, and hidden constructions, shedding light on the complex dynamics and actors that conventional scientific narratives often overlook. In general, this approach provides a detailed and insightful view of the underlying processes of nineteenth-century scientific practice, underscoring the importance of epistolary correspondence as a central element in producing scientific knowledge at the time, and in particular it reveals to us how much Darwin was himself involved in the production of his famous work on barnacles. By emphasizing the intricacies of research, this study enriches our understanding of Darwin's work as well as natural history practices in the 19th century, highlighting the complexity and diversity of actors and agents involved in shaping scientific knowledge.

该理论认为,科学实践是由人类和非人类参与者之间错综复杂的互动网络形成的。这项研究的核心是分析查尔斯-达尔文与他的合作者在 Cirripedia 项目期间的通信,揭示了与插图画家、资助者、标本所有者和翻译者以及其他利益相关者和有关方面谈判的复杂局面。这项研究超越了科学研究的最终成果,深入探讨了幕后的互动和隐藏的建构,揭示了传统科学叙事经常忽略的复杂动态和参与者。总体而言,这种研究方法对十九世纪科学实践的基本过程提供了详细而深刻的看法,强调了书信往来作为当时科学知识产生的核心要素的重要性,尤其是它向我们揭示了达尔文本人在其著名的藤壶研究成果的产生过程中的参与程度。通过强调研究的复杂性,这项研究丰富了我们对达尔文作品以及 19 世纪自然历史实践的理解,突出了参与形成科学知识的参与者和代理人的复杂性和多样性。
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The Schema and Organization of the Cell: An Introduction to Ernst Brücke's Die Elementarorganismen (1861). 细胞的结构和组织:恩斯特-布吕克的《元素有机体》(1861 年)导论。
IF 0.7 1区 哲学 Q4 BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-024-09774-8
Daniel Liu

Ernst Brücke's 1861 essay Die Elementarorganismen has often been cited as a watershed in the history of physiology as well as in the history of cell theory. In its time it was widely read as a reform of animal cell theory, shifting the concept of the cell away from Schleiden and Schwann's original cell schema of a membranous vesicle with a nucleus, and towards the protoplasm theory that had developed in botany, centered on the cell's living contents. It was also notorious for its arguments against the necessity of both the nucleus and the cell membrane. An English translation of "The Elementary Organisms" is presented for the first time in this journal issue, with annotations and illustrations, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09773-9 . Brücke's essay was not only an intervention into cell theory: historians can read it as a continuation of debates on the nature of the organism and theories of organization, and as an epistemological meditation on the microscope. In addition, although Brücke was known as a founder of the Berlin school of organic physics, "The Elementary Organisms" shows how he combined an avant-garde physicalist physiology with a much older tradition of comparative anatomy and physiology. The following introductory essay will provide a scientific biography of Ernst Brücke up to 1863, with background on debates on biological organization, cell theory, and muscle histology.

恩斯特-布吕克(Ernst Brücke)1861 年发表的论文《元素有机体》(Die Elementarorganismen)经常被视为生理学史和细胞理论史上的分水岭。在当时,这篇文章被广泛解读为动物细胞理论的一次改革,它将细胞的概念从施莱登和施旺最初的细胞图式--带有细胞核的膜状囊泡--转向植物学中发展起来的原生质理论,即以细胞的活内容物为中心。该书还因反对细胞核和细胞膜的必要性而声名狼藉。本期杂志首次刊登了《初等有机体》的英译本,并附有注释和插图,https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09773-9。布吕克的文章不仅是对细胞理论的干预:历史学家可以将其解读为关于有机体性质和组织理论辩论的延续,以及对显微镜的认识论沉思。此外,尽管布吕克以柏林有机物理学派的创始人而闻名,但《初等有机体》展示了他如何将前卫的物理主义生理学与更古老的比较解剖学和生理学传统相结合。以下介绍性文章将提供恩斯特-布吕克截至 1863 年的科学传记,以及有关生物组织、细胞理论和肌肉组织学的辩论背景。
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William Lawrence Tower's Beetles: Experimental Evolution and the Manipulation of Inheritance. 威廉-劳伦斯-塔的《甲虫》:实验性进化和遗传操纵。
IF 0.7 1区 哲学 Q4 BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-024-09771-x
Eric J Richards

William Lawrence Tower's work on the evolution of the Colorado Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), documenting the environmental induction of mutation and speciation, made him a leading figure in experimental genetics during the first decade of the 20th century. His research program served as a model for other experimental evolution studies seeking to demonstrate the environmental modification of inheritance. Tower enjoyed the support of influential figures in the field, despite well-known problems that plagued Tower's earlier academic career. The validity of his genetic work, and other findings reported by Tower, were later challenged. The Tower affair illustrates how questionable and possibly fraudulent scientific practices can be tolerated to explore certain experimental directions and theoretical frameworks, particularly at the frontier of expanding disciplines. When needed, those explorations can be forestalled or extinguished by exploiting conspicuous vulnerabilities of rogue practitioners. In Tower's case, both unrefuted allegations of scientific misconduct and personal problems dissolved his institutional support, leading to a swift ouster from academic science. Tower's downfall discredited soft inheritance and neo-Lamarckian conceptions in the field of experimental genetics, facilitating the discipline's embrace of a hard inheritance model that featured a hereditary material resistant to environmental modification.

威廉-劳伦斯-塔研究科罗拉多马铃薯甲虫(Leptinotarsa decemlineata)的进化,记录了环境诱导变异和物种分化的过程,使他成为 20 世纪头十年实验遗传学的领军人物。他的研究计划为其他试图证明环境改变遗传的实验进化研究树立了典范。尽管众所周知的问题困扰着塔早期的学术生涯,但塔还是得到了该领域有影响力的人物的支持。他的遗传学工作以及塔所报告的其他发现的有效性后来都受到了质疑。塔事件说明,为了探索某些实验方向和理论框架,特别是在不断扩展的学科前沿,可以容忍有问题的、可能是欺诈性的科学实践。在必要的时候,这些探索可以通过利用无赖从业者的明显弱点来阻止或消灭。在塔的案例中,科学不端行为的指控和个人问题使他失去了机构的支持,导致他迅速从学术科学界下台。塔的垮台使实验遗传学领域的软遗传和新拉马克主义概念名誉扫地,促进了该学科对硬遗传模式的接受,该模式的特点是遗传物质可抵抗环境的改变。
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The Elementary Organisms. 初级生物
IF 0.7 1区 哲学 Q4 BIOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10739-024-09773-9
Ernst Brücke, Daniel Liu

In 1861 the physiologist Ernst Brücke (1819-1892) published "The Elementary Organisms," calling for a major reform of the definition of the animal cell. An English translation of Brücke's essay is presented here for the first time. In this translation the numbered footnotes 1-9 are Brücke's own; alphabetical endnotes A-HH are my own annotations, with additional references to works cited by Brücke. Figures referenced by Brücke but not included in his original essay are also provided. I have also presented an introductory essay to my translation that provides background on Brücke and his arguments: "The Schema and Organization of the Cell," https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09774-8 , in this same issue of the Journal of the History of Biology.

1861 年,生理学家恩斯特-布吕克(Ernst Brücke,1819-1892 年)发表了《基本有机体》一文,呼吁对动物细胞的定义进行重大改革。这里首次介绍布吕克文章的英译本。译文中编号为1-9的脚注是布吕克自己的注释;按字母顺序排列的尾注A-H是我自己的注释,其中还参考了布吕克引用的作品。此外,我还提供了布吕克引用过但未包含在其原文中的图表。我还为我的译文撰写了一篇介绍性文章,介绍了布吕克及其论点的背景:"细胞的模式与组织",https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-024-09774-8,载于同一期的《生物学史杂志》。
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