By Philip J. Pauly
The biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to form the perform of recent organic learn via his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation. This biography strains his occupation and convincingly argues that Loeb's wish to regulate organisms, manifested in experiences of either replica and animal habit, contributed to a brand new self-image for biologists. the writer areas Loeb's experiments and the controversies they generated of their highbrow and institutional contexts, tracing his effect at the improvement of behaviorism, genetics, and reproductive biology.
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