William Bateson from Balanoglossus to Materials for the Study of Variation: The Transatlantic Roots of Discontinuity and the (Un)naturalness of Selection (2008)
William Bateson (1861--1926) has long occupied a controversial role in the history of biology at the turn of the twentieth century. For the most part, Bateson has been situated as the British translator of Mendel or as the outspoken antagonist of W. F. R. Weldon and Karl Pearsons biometrics program. Less has been made of Batesons transition from embryologist to advocate for discontinuous variation, and the precise role of British and American influences in that transition, in the years leading up to the publication of his massive Materials for the Study of Variation (1894). In this paper, I first attempt to trace Batesons development in his early career before turning to search for the development of the moniker ``anti-Darwinist'' that has been attached to Bateson in well-known histories of the neo-Darwinian Synthesis.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Hall, Brian K.;
(2005)
Betrayed by Balanoglossus: William Bateson's Rejection of Evolutionary Embryology as the Basis for Understanding Evolution
(/isis/citation/CBB001230140/)
Article
Radick, Gregory;
(2012)
Should “Heredity” and “Inheritance” Be Biological Terms? William Bateson's Change of Mind as a Historical and Philosophical Problem
(/isis/citation/CBB001211553/)
Chapter
Opitz, Donald L.;
(2011)
Cultivating Genetics in the Country: Whittingehame Lodge, Cambridge
(/isis/citation/CBB001231556/)
Article
Radick, Gregory;
(2011)
Physics in the Galtonian Sciences of Heredity
(/isis/citation/CBB001023997/)
Article
Hall, Brian K.;
(2006)
“Evolutionist and Missionary,” the Reverend John Thomas Gulick (1832--1923). Part I: Cumulative Segregation---Geographical Isolation
(/isis/citation/CBB001230142/)
Article
Müller-Wille, Staffan;
(2007)
Hybrids, Pure Cultures, and Pure Lines: From Nineteenth-Century Biology to Twentieth-Century Genetics
(/isis/citation/CBB000831420/)
Book
Jones, Jeannette Eileen;
Sharp, Patrick B.;
(2010)
Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
(/isis/citation/CBB001033825/)
Article
Nash, Richard;
(2015)
William Keith Brooks and the Naturalist's Defense of Darwinism in the Late-Nineteenth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB001510220/)
Thesis
Pearce, Trevor Richard;
(2010)
“A Perfect Chaos”: Organism-Environment Interaction and the Causal Factors of Evolution
(/isis/citation/CBB001562740/)
Article
Hall, Brian K.;
(2006)
“Evolutionist and Missionary,” the Reverend John Thomas Gulick (1832--1923). Part II. Coincident or Ontogenetic Selection---The Baldwin Effect
(/isis/citation/CBB001230143/)
Article
Ghesquier, Danièle;
(2002)
La centrifugation et la cellule: la déconstruction du protoplasme entre 1880 et 1910
(/isis/citation/CBB000770937/)
Article
Henning Hufnagel;
Nick Hopwood;
Frank Jäger;
Nicolas Wanlin;
(2016)
Kreatives Kopieren: Ernst Haeckels Embryonenbilder
(/isis/citation/CBB488755501/)
Article
Burian, Richard M.;
Thieffry, Denis;
(2000)
Introduction to the Special Issue “From Embryology to Developmental Biology”
(/isis/citation/CBB000770049/)
Chapter
Laurens de Rooy;
(2022)
What Ziegler did not provide – the embryological plate models of the laboratory of anatomist Lodewijk Bolk
(/isis/citation/CBB962814691/)
Book
Michael A. Flannery;
(2018)
Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology
(/isis/citation/CBB900090701/)
Article
Schmitt, Stéphane;
(2003)
Homeosis and Atavistic Regeneration: The “Biogenetic Law” in Entwicklungsmechanik
(/isis/citation/CBB000600372/)
Book
Churchill, F. B.;
(2015)
August Weismann: Development, Heredity, and Evolution
(/isis/citation/CBB001551937/)
Article
Sunderland, Mary Evelyn;
(2010)
Regeneration: Thomas Hunt Morgan's Window into Development
(/isis/citation/CBB001022368/)
Chapter
Newman, Stuart A.;
(2007)
William Bateson's Physicalist Ideas
(/isis/citation/CBB000774372/)
Article
Richmond, Marsha L.;
(2006)
The “Domestication” of Heredity: The Familial Organization of Geneticists at Cambridge University, 1895--1910
(/isis/citation/CBB000671267/)
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Journal of the History of Biology
Lendemains
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Be the first to comment!