Description “In the present paper I wish to discuss the constraining effect of the relation between the manifest and the scientific image, i.e., between the images of the world constructed on the personal experiences of individuals encountering themselves in society, and the striving for images based on impersonal reasoning, which may involve imperceptible conceptual entities. I shall follow primarily two examples from the early history of genetics. The one is the story of the objects of Darwinian natural selection, which is best known through the clash between biometricians and Mendelians in the first decade of the century, and its conceptual (though not actual) resolution through the introduction of the terms phenotype and genotype by Wilhelm Johannsen in 1909. The other is, in a sense, a more confined conflict, about the meaning of the genetic linkage maps of the chromosomes, as developed in the 1910s by T.H. Morgan and his students.”
Book Maasen, Sabine; Mendelsohn, Everett; Weingart, Peter (1995) Biology as society, society as biology: Metaphors.
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