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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the History of Biology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Daniel Navon, Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), 348 pp. 11 halftones, $40.00 Cloth, ISBN: 9780226638096	10
A Conversation with Darwin on Man Revisited: 150 Years to The Descent of Man	9
How to Civilize Elites: Controlling “Foreign Scientists” at a Field Station in the Galápagos Islands	8
James T. Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780691233796, 515 pp.	7
The Study of Geographical Distribution in the Analysis of Domestication as an Evolutionary Process: Tensions in Alphonse de Candolle’s Approach	7
Marga Vicedo, Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother, Boston: Beacon Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780807055519, 272 pp.	6
Luke Keogh, The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226713618, 288 pp	6
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn	4
Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe, A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities, and Projects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN: 9783031061295, 380 pp.	4
Nathan Crowe, Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946274, 299 pp.	4
Everett Mendelsohn, the Harvard Colleague	4
Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology	4
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation	4
The Neo-Lamarckian Tools Deployed by the Young Durkheim: 1882–1892	4
Laura J. Martin, Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration Cambridge, USA: Harvard University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780674979420, 336 pp.	4
Catharine Beecher and the Mechanical Body: Physiology, Evangelism, and American Social Reform from the Antebellum Period to the Gilded Age	3
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period	3
Pattern Without Process: Eugen Smirnov and the Earliest Project of Numerical Taxonomy (1923–1938)	3
Nadine Weidman, Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780674983472, 368 pp.	3
Three-Dimensional Phylogeny in Two Dimensions: How Darwin and Other Nineteenth-Century Naturalists Created Three-Dimensional Figures of the Natural System by Combining Trees of Life and Maps of Affini	3
From Entomological Research to Culturing Tissues: Aron Moscona’s Investigative Pathway	3
The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress	3
The Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach	2
Chen Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–1936	2
René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome	2

Mary Anne Andrei, Nature’s Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America’s Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780226730318, 250 pp.	2
Dogs for Life: Beagles, Drugs, and Capital in the Twentieth Century	2
Correction to: Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	2
Book Review: Jenny Bangham. Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics	2
Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp.	2
How Phenograms and Cladograms Became Molecular Phylogenetic Trees	2
The Overfishing Problem: Natural and Social Categories in Early Twentieth-Century Fisheries Science	2
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and the First Embryological Evolutionary Model on the Origin of Vertebrates	2
JHB’s “New Developments in Darwin Studies?” Redux	2
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226825328, 256 pp.	1
Correction to: Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited	1
Nonhuman Primates in Public Health: Between Biological Standardization, Conservation and Care	1
William Lawrence Tower’s Beetles: Experimental Evolution and the Manipulation of Inheritance	1
From Monsters to Malformations: Anatomical Preparations as Objects of Evidence for a Developmental Paradigm of Embryology, 1770–1850	1
Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	1
Darwin’s “Dark Matter” and the History of Biology: An Editorial Introduction	1
The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species	1
Asilomar Across the Atlantic: EMBO, EMBL, and the Politics of Scientific Expertise	1
Biased, Spasmodic, and Ridiculously Incomplete: Sequence Stratigraphy and the Emergence of a New Approach to Stratigraphic Complexity in Paleobiology, 1973–1995	1
Janina Wellman, Biological Motion: A History of Life, New York: Zone Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781942130819, pp. 336	1
Introduction: What Right? Which Organisms? Why Jobs?	1
The Shelf Life of Skulls: Anthropology and ‘race’ in the Vrolik Craniological Collection	1
Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science	1
Ashkenazi Anxieties: A Transnational Social History of Jewish Genetic Admixture Modeling, 1971–1986	1
Soraya de Chadarevian, Heredity Under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 272 pp, 36 halftones, $112.50 Cloth, ISBN 978022668508	1
Stefanie Gänger, A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9781108842167, 300 pp.	1
James Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions 1820–1858, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780822966340, 234 pp.	1
Gregory Radick, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226822723, 630 pp.	1
A Biogeographical Debate at the Origins of Limnology in Switzerland and Italy: The Issue over Pelagic Fauna Between Pietro Pavesi and François-Alphonse Forel	1
Developing Sex: From Recremental Semen to Developmental Endocrinology	1
The Elementary Organisms	1
A Feeling for the Human Subject: Margaret Lasker and the Genetic Puzzle of Pentosuria	1
The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes Arber’s Philosophy of Plants	1
Alexander Dalrymple, the Utility of Coral Reefs, and Charles Darwin’s Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs	1
“From the Known to the Unknown:” Nature’s Diversity, Materia Medica, and Analogy in 18th Century Botany, Through the Work of Tournefort, the Jussieu Brothers, and Linnaeus	0
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.	0
Correction: Joel Hagen. Life out of Balance: Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021, ISBN 9780817320898, 360 pp	0
JHB’s Darwin Collection	0
Neal A. Knapp, Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781421446554, 216 pp.	0
“Not by a Decree of Fate:” Ellen Richards, Euthenics, and the Environment in the Progressive Era	0
“The Logic of Monsters:” Pere Alberch and the Evolutionary Significance of Experimental Teratology	0
The Business with “Bugs”: Ruminology and the Commercial Feed Industry in the United States	0
Everett Mendelsohn: A Splendid Mentor, Primary Source, and Champion	0
Living Fossil: A Metaphor’s Travels Across Popular Culture and the Foundations of Darwinian Evolution and Anthropology	0
Maura Flannery, In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780300247916, 335 pp.	0
Emma Kowal, Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781478027539, 264 pp.	0
Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited	0
2023 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	0
Remembering Garland Edward Allen, III (1936–2023), Second Editor of Journal of the History of Biology	0
The Making of the Sambucana: On Memory, the Body, and the Production of Bioheritage	0

A Few Hours a Week: Everett Mendelsohn as Teacher, Mentor, and Exemplar	0
Reflections on Making Mice (2004)	0
Beginnings: Everett Mendelsohn, 1963–1973	0
Buffon, Species and the Forces of Reproduction	0
A Critique of Darwin’s The Descent of Man by a Muslim Scholar in 1912: Muḥammad-Riḍā Iṣfahānī's Examination of the Anatomical and Embryological Similarities Between Human and Other Animals	0
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, ISBN: 0226823016, 348 pp.	0
Sharon E. Kingsland, A Lab for All Seasons: The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology, 2023, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN: 9780300267228, 385 pp.	0
A Tale of Enduring Myths: Buffon’s Theory of Animal Degeneration and the Regeneration of Domesticated Animals in Mid-19th Century Brazil	0
Mimush Sheep and the Spectre of Inbreeding: Historical Background for Festetics’s Organic and Genetic Laws Four Decades Before Mendel’s Experiments in Peas	0
Recapitulation, Heredity, and Freud’s View of Human Nature	0
Diauxic Inhibition: Jacques Monod's Ignored Work	0
Alfred Russel Wallace’s Darwinian Opposition to Eugenics	0
Beyond the Instinct Debate: Daniel Lehrman’s Contributions to Animal Behavior Studies	0
Lee B. Kass, From Chromosomes to Mobile Genetic Elements: The Life and Work of Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2024, ISBN: 9781032365329, 265 pp.	0
The Schema and Organization of the Cell: An Introduction to Ernst Brücke’s Die Elementarorganismen (1861)	0
Rena Selya, Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America, Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780262046466, 248 pp.	0
Reconsidering Utter Extinction	0
The Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters	0
Reflections on Darwin Historiography	0
Asilomar Goes Underground: The Long Legacy of Recombinant DNA Hazard Debates for the Greater Boston Area Biotechnology Industry	0
Liguus Landscapes: Amateur Liggers, Professional Malacology, and the Social Lives of Snail Sciences	0
Everett Mendelsohn, One Colleague’s Remembrances	0
Invasion on So Grand a Scale: Darwin, Lyell, and Invasive Species	0
Connecting to the Living History of Radiation Exposure	0
Sociobiology on Screen. The Controversy Through the Lens of Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturally	0
Correction to: The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress	0
2022 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	0
Marianne Sommer, The Diagrammatics of ‘Race:’ Visualizing Human Relatedness in the History of Physical, Evolutionary, and Genetic Anthropology, ca. 1770–2020, Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024	0
Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology	0
Ian Hesketh, ed., Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, ISBN: 97808229470	0
Inaugural Editorial	0
Species Choice and Model Use: Reviving Research on Human Development	0
David P.D. Munns and Kärin Nickelsen. Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life-Support Systems in the Space Age, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN 9780822946540, 216 pp.	0
In Memory of Paul Farber (1944–2021), Third Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology	0
Alfredo Morabia, The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19, Baltimore: Johns Hopkin University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781421446783, 232 pp.	0
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	0
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn, a Kind and Generous Mentor	0
Gregory Morgan. Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021, ISBN 1421444011, xiv + 373 pp.	0
“My Reputation is at Stake.” Humboldt's Mountain Plant Geography in the Making (1803–1825)	0
“Keep the Faith:” Memories of Everett Mendelson	0
Lisa Haushofer, Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition, Oakland: University of California Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780520390409, 270 pp.	0
Everett Mendelsohn: The Harvard Professor	0
Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–1932	0
Studying Regeneration Through History as a Way of Looking Forward	0
Garland Allen’s Last Book Project	0
Correction: Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp	0
The Curious Incident of Crick in the Night-Time and Other Asilomar Enigmas	0
“At a Glance:” The Role of Diagrammatic Representations in Eugenics Appropriations of the “Infamous Juke Family”	0
The Yale Geochronometric Laboratory and the Rewriting of Global Environmental History	0
Kathleen S. Murphy, Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781469675909, 256 pp.	0
Correction to: An Origin of Citations: Darwin’s Collaborators and Their Contributions to the Origin of Species	0
Jeannie N. Shinozuka, Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, 296 pp	0
Frequency and Content of the Last Fifty Years of Papers on Aristotle’s Writings on Biological Phenomena	0
Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones	0
The Cyclical Return of the IQ Controversy: Revisiting the Lessons of the Resolution on Genetics, Race and Intelligence	0
Colin Webster, Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226828770, 320 pp.	0
Darwin and the White Shipwrecked Sailor: Beyond Blending Inheritance and the Jenkin Myth	0
Joel Schwartz, Robert Brown and Mungo Park: Travels and Explorations in Natural History for the Royal Society, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden no. 122, Cham: Springer, 2021, ISBN: 97830307486	0
Hey Hey We’re the Monkeys! An Essay Review of Gowan Dawson’s Monkey to Man	0
Havelock Ellis, Sexology, and Sexual Selection in Post-Darwinian Evolutionary Biology	0
Neeraja Sankaran, A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946304, 312 pp	0
Blowing in the Wind: Pollen’s Mobility as a Challenge to Measuring Climate by Proxy, 1916–1939	0
Between Simians and Cell Lines: Rhesus Monkeys, Polio Research, and the Geopolitics of Tissue Culture (1934–1954)	0
Sperm-Force: Naturphilosophie and George Newport’s Quest to Discover the Secret of Fertilization	0
Balancing the Synthesis	0
Book Review: Sherrie Lyons, From Cells to Organisms: Re-envisioning Cell Theory	0
Model Organisms Unbound	0
A “Central Bureau of Feminine Algology:” Algae, Mutualism, and Gendered Ecological Perspectives, 1880–1910	0
Lords of the Fly Revisited	0
The Social Politics of Karl Escherich’s 1933 Inaugural Presidential Lecture	0
Asilomar, Gene Cloning’s Origins, and Its Commercial Fate	0
Garland E. Allen (1936-2023), Historian of Life Science	0
Reading and Writing the History of Biology at JHB	0
The Return of the Geneticist: Theodosius Dobzhansky, Edward Chapin, and Museum Taxonomy	0
Everett Mendelsohn (1931-2023): Founding Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology	0
Raf De Bont, Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism & Preservation, 1920–1960. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946618, x + 373 pp	0
Everett Mendelsohn at the MBL	0
Correction to: Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–1936	0
Species Transformation and Social Reform: The Role of the Will in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s Transformist Theory	0
The 2024 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	0

Samantha Muka, Oceans under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN 9780226824130, 242 pp.	0
The Colonial State, African Dog-Owners, and the Political Economy of Rabies Vaccination Campaigns in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 1960s	0
Editorial	0
Muscles or Movements? Representation in the Nascent Brain Sciences	0
Correction to: Diauxic Inhibition: Jacques Monod’s Ignored Work	0
Making a French Connection: Darwin, Brown-Séquard and the Epilepsy Studies	0
Collaboration, Gender, and Leadership at the Minnesota Seaside Station, 1901–1907	0
Edinburgh Lamarckians? The Authorship of Three Anonymous Papers (1826–1829)	0
Andrew Cunningham, “I Follow Aristotle:” How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood, Routledge: London and New York, 2022, ISBN: 9781032162232, xii + 180 pp.	0
Discovering DNA Methylation, the History and Future of the Writing on DNA	0
Eloge: Paul Lawrence Farber (1944–2021)	0
International Culture Collections and the Value of Microbial Life: Johanna Westerdijk’s Fungi and Ernst Georg Pringsheim’s Algae	0
A “Mean Quarrelsome Spirit:” Controversy in British Systematics, 1822–1836	0
“Pray Observe How Time Slips By:” Collaborators, Assistants, and the Background Dynamics in the Publication of Darwin’s Cirripedia Project	0
Anita Guerrini, Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR, 2nd ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9781421444055, 208 pp.	0
Dialectical Materialism Serves Voluntarist Productivism: The Epistemic Foundation of Lysenkoism in Socialist China and North Vietnam	0
The Darwin Correspondence Project and Pedagogy	0