Pub Date : 2023-08-01Epub Date: 2023-06-29DOI: 10.1007/s10739-023-09719-7
Cora Stuhrmann
When the sociobiology debate erupted in 1975, there were almost too many contributions to the heated exchanges between sociobiologists and their critics to count. In the fall of 1976, a Canadian educational film entitled Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturally sparked further controversy due to its graphic visuals and outrageous narration. While critics claimed the film was a promotional tool to further the sociobiological agenda in educational settings, sociobiologists quickly distanced themselves from the film and, in turn, accused the critics of consciously misrepresenting sociobiology by organizing showings of the film. Using audio, video, archival, and published sources, this paper explores the complicated history of Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturally and demonstrates how the public debate about the film reflects the positions, polemics, and polarization of the sociobiology debate as a whole.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01Epub Date: 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1007/s10739-023-09725-9
Kim Kleinman
{"title":"Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation.","authors":"Kim Kleinman","doi":"10.1007/s10739-023-09725-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10739-023-09725-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":"227-238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10397292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01Epub Date: 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1007/s10739-023-09726-8
Jane Maienschein
{"title":"Garland Allen's Last Book Project.","authors":"Jane Maienschein","doi":"10.1007/s10739-023-09726-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10739-023-09726-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":"239-250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10533620/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9954674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01Epub Date: 2023-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s10739-022-09701-9
Marsha Richmond, Karen Rader
{"title":"2023 Everett Mendelsohn Prize.","authors":"Marsha Richmond, Karen Rader","doi":"10.1007/s10739-022-09701-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10739-022-09701-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":"211-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10826791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01Epub Date: 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1007/s10739-023-09723-x
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Nicolas Rasmussen
{"title":"Garland E. Allen (1936-2023), Historian of Life Science.","authors":"Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Nicolas Rasmussen","doi":"10.1007/s10739-023-09723-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10739-023-09723-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":"215-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9871397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1007/s10739-023-09731-x
Rob Boddice
{"title":"Anita Guerrini, Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR, 2nd ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9781421444055, 208 pp.","authors":"Rob Boddice","doi":"10.1007/s10739-023-09731-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09731-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10260496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1007/s10739-023-09730-y
Daniel Liu
{"title":"Karl S. Matlin, Crossing the Boundaries of Life: Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780226819235, 368 pp.","authors":"Daniel Liu","doi":"10.1007/s10739-023-09730-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09730-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9868039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.1007/s10739-023-09715-x
Ian Tyrrell
{"title":"Raf De Bont, Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism & Preservation, 1920-1960. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946618, x + 373 pp.","authors":"Ian Tyrrell","doi":"10.1007/s10739-023-09715-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09715-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9546366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1007/s10739-023-09710-2
Anita Guerrini
{"title":"Alisha Rankin. The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021, ISBN 9780226744858, 329 pp.","authors":"Anita Guerrini","doi":"10.1007/s10739-023-09710-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09710-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9527952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-23DOI: 10.1007/s10739-023-09712-0
Bill Sugden
{"title":"Gregory Morgan. Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021, ISBN 1421444011, xiv + 373 pp.","authors":"Bill Sugden","doi":"10.1007/s10739-023-09712-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-023-09712-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9162122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}