Journal of the History of Biology

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Everett Mendelsohn, the Harvard Colleague14
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation8
Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science7
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226825328, 256 pp.7
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period7
Situating Commemoration: An Editorial Introduction7
Luke Keogh, The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226713618, 288 pp7
“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 Linnaeus5
Janina Wellman, Biological Motion: A History of Life, New York: Zone Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781942130819, pp. 3365
The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes Arber’s Philosophy of Plants5
Marco Tamborini, The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780822947356, 283 pp4
Everett Mendelsohn: The Harvard Professor4
The Shelf Life of Skulls: Anthropology and ‘race’ in the Vrolik Craniological Collection4
Correction: Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp4
Sperm-Force: Naturphilosophie and George Newport’s Quest to Discover the Secret of Fertilization4
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.4
Studying Regeneration Through History as a Way of Looking Forward3
Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes (ed.), Understanding Evolution in Darwin’s Origin: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Theory (History, Philosophy, and Theory of the Life Sciences, volume 34), Cham: S3
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.3
Recapitulation, Heredity, and Freud’s View of Human Nature2
The 2025 Everett Mendelsohn Prize2
Sociobiology on Screen. The Controversy Through the Lens of Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturally2
The Pre-Linnaean Herbarium of Paolo Boccone (1633–1704) in Wrocław, Poland: Its History, Description, its Purpose, and its Usefulness for Historians of Science2
Plants, Pictures, and People2
Lisa Haushofer, Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition, Oakland: University of California Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780520390409, 270 pp.2
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: 978303074862
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn2
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 9780226685082
Mimush Sheep and the Spectre of Inbreeding: Historical Background for Festetics’s Organic and Genetic Laws Four Decades Before Mendel’s Experiments in Peas2
Garland Allen’s Last Book Project2
Maura Flannery, In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780300247916, 335 pp.2
Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe, A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities, and Projects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN: 9783031061295, 380 pp.2
The Making of the Sambucana: On Memory, the Body, and the Production of Bioheritage2
Imperial Microbiology: The National Collection of Type Cultures and the Management of Microorganisms, 1916–19221
Nadine Weidman, Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780674983472, 368 pp.1
On “Hennig’s Dilemma” and the Post-Systematics Wars1
Beginnings: Everett Mendelsohn, 1963–19731
Patrick Spero, André Michaux and Thomas Jefferson and the Conspiracy of 1793, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780813952192, 334 pp.1
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.1
Correction: Joel Hagen. Life out of Balance: Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021, ISBN 9780817320898, 360 pp1
Publisher Correction: Peter J. Bowler, Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978110884225-6, 314 pp1
René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome1
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 pp1
Culture, Codes, Communities: Culture Collections’ Transformation from Microbial Palaces to Networked Services (1890–1972)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
The Elementary Organisms1
“At a Glance:” The Role of Diagrammatic Representations in Eugenics Appropriations of the “Infamous Juke Family”1
Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones1
The Different Career Patterns of Two Pathbreaking Women Biologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem1
Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–19321
The 2024 Everett Mendelsohn Prize1
Shifting Values and Shifting Risks: Debates on the New Biology in Germany and the United States Before and After Asilomar (1960–1980)1
Peter J. Bowler, Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978110884225-6, 314 pp.1
Species Transformation and Social Reform: The Role of the Will in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s Transformist Theory1
The Contributions—and Collapse—of Lamarckism in Pasteurian Molecular Biology: 2. Enzymatic Adaptation, 1920–19651
“Keep the Faith:” Memories of Everett Mendelson1
The 2026 Everett Mendelsohn Prize1
The Study of Geographical Distribution in the Analysis of Domestication as an Evolutionary Process: Tensions in Alphonse de Candolle’s Approach1
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 pp0
Emma Kowal, Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781478027539, 264 pp.0
“Pray Observe How Time Slips By:” Collaborators, Assistants, and the Background Dynamics in the Publication of Darwin’s Cirripedia Project0
A Few Hours a Week: Everett Mendelsohn as Teacher, Mentor, and Exemplar0
Raf De Bont, Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism & Preservation, 1920–1960. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946618, x + 373 pp0
Blowing in the Wind: Pollen’s Mobility as a Challenge to Measuring Climate by Proxy, 1916–19390
2023 Everett Mendelsohn Prize0
Darwin and the White Shipwrecked Sailor: Beyond Blending Inheritance and the Jenkin Myth0
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 pp0
Frequency and Content of the Last Fifty Years of Papers on Aristotle’s Writings on Biological Phenomena0
Why Darwin and Wallace Disagreed About Domestic Varieties0
The Return of the Geneticist: Theodosius Dobzhansky, Edward Chapin, and Museum Taxonomy0
Tim Harris: In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey through 50 Years of Biotechnology0
“The Logic of Monsters:” Pere Alberch and the Evolutionary Significance of Experimental Teratology0
Remembering Garland Edward Allen, III (1936–2023), Second Editor of Journal of the History of Biology0
How Phenograms and Cladograms Became Molecular Phylogenetic Trees0
Alison Bashford, The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, ISBN 9780226720111, 576 pp.0
Editorial0
Introduction: Revis(it)ing Asilomar0
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.0
Everett Mendelsohn, One Colleague’s Remembrances0
Introducing “Notes and Sources”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
Buffon, Species and the Forces of Reproduction0
The Neo-Lamarckian Tools Deployed by the Young Durkheim: 1882–18920
A Tale of Enduring Myths: Buffon’s Theory of Animal Degeneration and the Regeneration of Domesticated Animals in Mid-19th Century Brazil0
Species Choice and Model Use: Reviving Research on Human Development0
Everett Mendelsohn: A Splendid Mentor, Primary Source, and Champion0
Alexander Dalrymple, the Utility of Coral Reefs, and Charles Darwin’s Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs0
“Helping to Bridge the Gap Between Genetics and Development:ˮ Julian Huxley, Early 20th Century Oxford Biology, and the Epigenetic Origins of Animal Characters0
Beyond Controversy? The Promotion and Early Critical Reception of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Fifty Years Later0
Developing Sex: From Recremental Semen to Developmental Endocrinology0
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.0
Nonhuman Primates in Public Health: Between Biological Standardization, Conservation and Care0
The Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach0
The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species0
Everett Mendelsohn at the MBL0
William Lawrence Tower’s Beetles: Experimental Evolution and the Manipulation of Inheritance0
Rena Selya, Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America, Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780262046466, 248 pp.0
Roberta L. Millstein, The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780226834481, 183 pp.0
Invasion on So Grand a Scale: Darwin, Lyell, and Invasive Species0
A “Central Bureau of Feminine Algology:” Algae, Mutualism, and Gendered Ecological Perspectives, 1880–19100
Living Fossil: A Metaphor’s Travels Across Popular Culture and the Foundations of Darwinian Evolution and Anthropology0
Myrna Perez, Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024, ISBN 9781421450155, 248pp.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
Christian Warren, Starved for Light: The long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780226151939, 288 pp.0
Everett Mendelsohn (1931-2023): Founding Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology0
Discovering DNA Methylation, the History and Future of the Writing on DNA0
How to Civilize Elites: Controlling “Foreign Scientists” at a Field Station in the Galápagos Islands0
Helen Anne Curry, Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction0
Wallace Reconsidered0
Andreas Daum, Alexander Von Humboldt: A Concise Biography, Trans. Robert Savage, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780691247366, 208 pp.0
Reflections on Darwin Historiography0
James T. Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780691233796, 515 pp.0
Philippe Huneman: Death: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology0
The Schema and Organization of the Cell: An Introduction to Ernst Brücke’s Die Elementarorganismen (1861)0
Beyond the Instinct Debate: Daniel Lehrman’s Contributions to Animal Behavior Studies0
Matthew Wale: Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain0
Jim Endersby, The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025, ISBN: 9780226837543, 400 pp.0
Atomic Botany: The Botanical Career of Janice Carson Beatley, and the Flora, Vegetation, and Ecology of the Nevada Test Site in Cold War United States (1959–1973)0
Changing Sex: Frank Lillie and the Discovery of the Free-Martin0
The Embryo Project: A Rich Resource for the HPS Community0
Anita Guerrini, Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR, 2nd ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9781421444055, 208 pp.0
Brad Bolman, Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025, ISBN: 9780226825533, 384 pp.0
Muscles or Movements? Representation in the Nascent Brain Sciences0
The Darwin Correspondence Project and Pedagogy0
Neal A. Knapp, Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781421446554, 216 pp.0
Correction: A “Mean Quarrelsome Spirit:” Controversy in British Systematics, 1822–18360
Reconsidering Utter Extinction0
Kostas Kampourakis, How We Get Mendel Wrong, and Why It Matters: Challenging the Narrative of Mendelian Genetics, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2024, ISBN 9781032456904, 250 pp.0
A “Mean Quarrelsome Spirit:” Controversy in British Systematics, 1822–18360
Stefanie Gänger, A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9781108842167, 300 pp.0
Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology0
Savithri Preetha Nair, Chromosome Woman, Nomad Scientist: E. K. Janaki Ammal, A Life 1897–1984, London and New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2023, ISBN: 9781032035482, 611 pp.0
Biased, Spasmodic, and Ridiculously Incomplete: Sequence Stratigraphy and the Emergence of a New Approach to Stratigraphic Complexity in Paleobiology, 1973–19950
The Curious Incident of Crick in the Night-Time and Other Asilomar Enigmas0
Inaugural Editorial0
Ashkenazi Anxieties: A Transnational Social History of Jewish Genetic Admixture Modeling, 1971–19860
John Calhoun’s ‘Strange’ Rodent Tale? Constructing and Consuming Interdisciplinary Pasts and Futures0
Hyung Wook Park, Creationism in South Korean Culture: Science, Religion, and the Struggle against Evolution, London: Routledge, 2024, ISBN: 9781032757148, 222 pp.0
Darwin’s “Dark Matter” and the History of Biology: An Editorial Introduction0
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
Ηοlistic Ecology: Dispelling the Myth of Being Romantic0
“Not by a Decree of Fate:” Ellen Richards, Euthenics, and the Environment in the Progressive Era0
JHB’s Darwin Collection0
Garland E. Allen (1936-2023), Historian of Life Science0
Reading and Writing the History of Biology at JHB0
Samantha Muka, Oceans under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN 9780226824130, 242 pp.0
Adrian Desmond, Reign of the Beast: The Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution0
Alfred Russel Wallace’s Darwinian Opposition to Eugenics0
The Yale Geochronometric Laboratory and the Rewriting of Global Environmental History0
Liguus Landscapes: Amateur Liggers, Professional Malacology, and the Social Lives of Snail Sciences0
The Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters0
Collaboration, Gender, and Leadership at the Minnesota Seaside Station, 1901–19070
Hey Hey We’re the Monkeys! An Essay Review of Gowan Dawson’s Monkey to Man0
Balancing the Synthesis0
Announcement0
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: 978082294700
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn, a Kind and Generous Mentor0
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, ISBN: 0226823016, 348 pp.0
A Biogeographical Debate at the Origins of Limnology in Switzerland and Italy: The Issue over Pelagic Fauna Between Pietro Pavesi and François-Alphonse Forel0
Theresa Levitt, Elixir: A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780674250895, 320 pp.0
Gregory Morgan. Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021, ISBN 1421444011, xiv + 373 pp.0
Environment, Tropical Disease, and Scientific Networks in Argentina: Folclore and Multiscalar Mobilities0
“My Reputation is at Stake.” Humboldt's Mountain Plant Geography in the Making (1803–1825)0
Nathan Crowe, Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946274, 299 pp.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
Asilomar Goes Underground: The Long Legacy of Recombinant DNA Hazard Debates for the Greater Boston Area Biotechnology Industry0
Pattern Without Process: Eugen Smirnov and the Earliest Project of Numerical Taxonomy (1923–1938)0
Elisabeth S. Vrba, the “Three Musketeers,” and the Expansion of Macroevolutionary Theory0
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, 20240
Laura J. Martin, Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration Cambridge, USA: Harvard University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780674979420, 336 pp.0
Of Epistemes and Insects: How Drosophila and Butterflies Shape Our Understanding of Radiation Risk0
Gregory Radick, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226822723, 630 pp.0
Asilomar, Gene Cloning’s Origins, and Its Commercial Fate0
Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp.0
Restoring a Place for Biographies in the History of Science0
On Loving and Leaving Zoos0
The Social Politics of Karl Escherich’s 1933 Inaugural Presidential Lecture0
Havelock Ellis, Sexology, and Sexual Selection in Post-Darwinian Evolutionary Biology0
Asilomar Across the Atlantic: EMBO, EMBL, and the Politics of Scientific Expertise0
The Rotational Flow of Blood as Described in a 14th Century Persian Manuscript0
The Industry of Wallace and the Wallace Industry0
Richard G. Delisle, Maurizio Esposito, and David Ceccarelli, eds. Unity and Disunity in Evolutionary Biology: Deconstructing Darwinism0
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
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