1 Daniel Liu’s History of Biology Prelim List, rev. 30 Oct. 2011 DISCLAIMER: SEVERAL BOOKS WERE OMITTED AND ADDED TO THIS LIST AD HOC. A. General Survey and the Problems of Life 4 B. e Order of Life: Morphology, Evolution, and Systematics 5 1. Classification & Systematics 5 2. Natural History & Romantic Biology 5 3. Evolution before Genes 6 a. in General (including recent trends) 6 b. Before Darwin 6 c. Darwin 6 d. Darwinism in the 19th century 6 e. The Lost Years? Neo-Larmarkianism, Controversies until the Modern Synthesis 7 4.Botany, Ecology, Biogeography, and Imperial Life Sciences 7 5.Morphology & Anatomy 8 C. e Functions of Life 9 1. Physiology after Johannes Müller 9 2. Vitalisms & Mechanisms 9 3. Modern Plant Physiology 10 4. Cell eory and Bacteriology 10 5. Physico-Chemical Aspirations & Alliances 10 D. Modern Syntheses: Crossing Over Between Form & Function 12 1. General Biology, General Physiology, and their Relatives 12 2. Genetics Revolutions 12 a. Genes, the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, and Twentieth Century Systematics 12 b. What is Life? DNA and Theories of Molecular Life 13 c. Origin of Life Theories, Synthetic Biology, and Astrobiology 13 3. Models and Model Organisms 14 E. Biology, Society, and Politics 15 1. Museums, Pedagogy, and Popular Biology 15 2. Biotechnology 15 3. Analogues to Biology in the Social and Political Sciences 15 2 A. General Survey and the Problems of Life [1] Allen, Garland E. Life Science in the Twentieth Century. New York: Wiley, 1975. [1] Coleman, William. Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function, and Transformation. New York: Wiley, 1971. [2] Farber, Paul Lawrence. Finding Order in Nature: e Naturalist Tradition From Linnaeus to E.O. Wilson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. [2] Guerrini, Anna. Experimenting With Humans and Animals: From Galen to Animal Rights. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. [1] Johnson, Kristin. “e Return of the Phoenix: e 1963 International Congress of Zoology and American Zoologists in the Twentieth Century.” Journal of the History of Biology 42 (2009): 417-56. [3] Mayr, Ernst. e Growth of Biological ought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1982. [1] Morange, Michel. Life Explained. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. [1] Sapp, Jan. Genesis: e Evolution of Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. [3, selected essays] Bowler, Peter J., and John V. Pickstone, (eds.) Modern Life and Earth Sciences. Vol. 6, e Cambridge History of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 3 B. The Order of Life: Morphology, Evolution, and Systematics 1. Classification & Systematics […]Roger, Jacques. Buffon. BIG BUFFON SCHOLAR OF THE 80S AND 90S [3] Farris, J.S., and Platnick, N.I. “Lord of the Flies: e Systematist as Study Animal.” Cladistics 5 (1989): 295-310. [2] Hull, David L. Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. [2] Koerner, Lisbet. Linnaeus: Nature and Nation. Cambridge: Harvard Universtiy Press, 1999. [3] Larson, James L. Reason and Experience: e Representation of Natural Order in the Work of Carl Von Linné. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971. [3] Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica. Translated by Stephen Freer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [2] Lyon, John, and Phillip Sloan. From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings From Buffon and His Critics. University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame, 1981. [1] Sloan, Phillip R. “e Buffon-Linnaeus Controversy.” Isis 67 (1976): 356-75. [1] Sloan, Phillip R. “Natural History, 1670-1802.” In 67, edited by Robert C. Olby, 356-75. New York: Routledge, 1990. [3] Stevens, Peter F. e Development of Biological Systematics: Antoine-Laurent De Jussieu, Nature, and the Natural System. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. 2. Natural History & Romantic Biology [select articles to read] Jardine, Nicholas, James A. Secord, and E.C. Spary. Cultures of Natural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [1, chs. 1-2] Jardine, Nicholas. e Scenes of Inquiry: On the Reality of Questions in the Sciences. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991. [3] Paley, William. Natural eology. London: Wilks and Taylor, 1802. [1] Phillips, Denise. Acolytes of Nature: Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. [1] Richards, Robert J. e Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. START WITH APPENDIX TO THE HAECKEL BOOK 4 3. Evolution before Genes a) in General (including recent trends) [2] Bowler, Peter J. Evolution: e History of an Idea, 25th Anniversary Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. [3] Gould, Stephen Jay. e Structure of Evolutionary eory. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2002. [3] Greene, John C. Science, Ideology, and World View: Essays in the History of Evolutionary Ideas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. [2] Ruse, Michael. e Darwinian Revolution : Science Red in Tooth and Claw. 2nd ed. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. b) Before Darwin [2] Corsi, Pietro. e Age of Lamarck. [1] Desmond, Adrian J. e Politics of Evolution : Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. [2] Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de. Zoological Philosophy : An Exposition With Regard to the Natural History of Animals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984 [2] Rupke, Nicolaas A. Richard Owen: Biology Without Darwin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. [1] Secord, James A. Victorian Sensation: e Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. c) Darwin [2-3] Browne, E.J. Charles Darwin: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995. [1] Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859. [1] Darwin, Charles. Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871. [1] Ospovat, Dov. e Development of Darwin’s eory: Natural History, Natural eology, and Natural Selection, 1838-1859. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. 5 d) Darwinism in the 19th century [1] Desmond, Adrian J. Huxley: Evolution’s High Priest. London: Penguin, 1997. [3] Donald, Diana, and Jane Munro, (eds.) Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. [2] Endersby, Jim. Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. [1] Gliboff, Sander. H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism: A Study in Translation and Transformation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008. [1] Richards, Robert J. e Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle Over Evolutionary ought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. [3] Rudwick, M.J.S. e Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. [2] Todes, Daniel. “Darwin’s Malthusian Metaphor and Russian Revolutionary ought.” Isis 78 (1987): 537-51. e) The Lost Years? Neo-Larmarkianism and Controversies until the Modern Synthesis [2] Bowler, Peter J. e Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution eories in the Decades Around 1900. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. [1] Bowler, Peter J. “Revisiting the Eclipse of Darwinism.” Journal of the History of Biology 38 (2005): 19-32. [1] Gayon, Jean. Darwinism’s Struggle for Survival: Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 4. Botany, Ecology, Biogeography, and Imperial Life Sciences [3] Brockway, Lucile H. Science and Colonial Expansion: e Role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. [1] Hagen, Joel Bartholemew. An Entangled Bank: e Origins of Ecosystem Ecology. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. [1] Kingsland, Sharon E. e Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 6 [2] Schiebinger, Londa. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. [3] Tilley, Helen. Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 5. Morphology & Anatomy [1] Appel, Toby A. e Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology in the Decades Before Darwin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. [2] Maienschein, Jane. Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880-1915. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. [1] Nyhart, Lynn K. Biology Takes Form: Animal Morphology and the German Universities, 1800-1900. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. [3] Russell, E.S. Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology. London: J. Murray, 1916. 7 C. The Functions of Life 1. Physiology after Johannes Müller [1] Coleman, William, and Frederic Lawrence Holmes, (eds.) e Investigative Enterprise: Experimental Physiology in Nineteenth-Century Medicine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. [1] Geison, Gerald L. Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology: e Scientific Enterprise in Late Victorian Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. [1] Geison, Gerald L., (ed.) Physiology in the American Context, 1850-1940. Bethesda,