By David Sepkoski
This booklet is the 1st dedicated to glossy biology’s innovators and iconoclasts: women and men who challenged winning notions of their fields. a few of these scientists have been Nobel Prize winners, a few have been thought of cranks or gadflies, a few have been actually flawed. The tales of those obdurate dissenters are separately attention-grabbing. Taken jointly, they supply extraordinary insights into the function of dissent and controversy in technological know-how and particularly the expansion of organic proposal during the last century.
Each of the book’s nineteen particularly commissioned chapters bargains an in depth portrait of the highbrow uprising of a selected scientist operating in an important quarter of biology--genetics, evolution, embryology, ecology, biochemistry, neurobiology, and virology in addition to others. An creation by way of the volume’s editors and an epilogue through R. C. Lewontin draw connections one of the case reviews and light up the nonconforming scientist’s an important functionality of tense the relaxation of these within the majority. through targeting the dynamics and influence of dissent instead of on “winners” who're credited with medical advances, the publication provides a refreshingly unique point of view at the historical past of the existence sciences.
Scientists featured during this volume:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Hans Driesch
Wilhelm Johannsen
Raymond Arthur Dart
C. D. Darlington
Richard Goldschmidt
Barbara McClintock
Oswald T. Avery
Roger Sperry
Leon Croizat
Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards
Peter Mitchell
Howard Temin
Motoo Kimura
William D. Hamilton
Carl Woese
Stephen Jay Gould
Thelma Rowell
Daniel S. Simberloff
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