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Life Organic, The - The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics (Hardcover)
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Life Organic, The - The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics (Hardcover)
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As scientists debated the nature of life in the nineteenth century,
two theories predominated: vitalism, which suggested that living
things contained a "vital spark," and mechanism, the idea that
animals and humans differed from nonliving things only in their
degree of complexity. Erik Peterson tells the forgotten story of
the pursuit of a Third Way in biology, known by many names,
including "the organic philosophy," which gave rise to C. H.
Waddington's work in the subfield of epigenetics: an alternative to
standard genetics and evolutionary biology that captured the
attention of notable scientists from Francis Crick to Stephen Jay
Gould. The Life Organic chronicles the influential biologists,
mathematicians, philosophers, and biochemists from both sides of
the Atlantic who formed Joseph Needham's Theoretical Biology Club,
defined and refined Third-Way thinking through the 1930s, and laid
the groundwork for some of the most cutting-edge achievements in
biology today. By tracing the persistence of organicism into the
twenty-first century, this book also raises significant questions
about how we should model the development of the discipline of
biology going forward.
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