Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences
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Introduction: Perchance to Dream—Fostering Novelty in the Life Sciences
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich
I The Evolutionists
1 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck: Biological Visionary
Richard W. Burkhardt Jr.
2 Ernst Haeckel: A Dream Transformed
Robert J. Richards
3 Peter Kropotkin: Anarchist, Revolutionary, Dreamer
Oren Harman
II The Medicalists
4 Mary Lasker: Citizen Lobbyist for Medical Research
Kirsten E. Gardner
5 Jonas Salk: American Hero, Scientific Outcast
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
6 The Origins of “Dynamic Reciprocity”: Mina Bissell’s Expansive Picture of Cancer Causation
Anya Plutynski
III The Molecularists
7 W. Ford Doolittle: Evolutionary Provocations and a Pluralistic Vision
Maureen A. O’Malley
8 Collecting Dreams in the Molecular Sciences: Margaret Dayhoff and The Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure
Bruno J. Strasser
9 Neanderthals in Space: George Church’s Modest Steps toward Possible Futures
Luis Campos
IV The Ecologists
10 From New Alchemy to Living Machines: John Todd’s Dreams of Ecological Engineering
Michael R. Dietrich and Laura L. Lovett
11 Stephen Hubbell and the Paramount Power of Randomness
Philippe Huneman
12 Rachel Carson: Prophet for the Environment
Janet Browne
V The Ethologists
13 Jane Goodall: She Dreamed of Tarzan
Dale Peterson
14 Francis Crick and the Problem of Consciousness
Rick Grush
15 David Sloan Wilson: Visionary, Idealist, Ideologue
Mark E. Borrello
VI The Systematizers
16 D’Arcy Thompson: Archetypical Visionary
Tim Horder
17 James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis: “A New Look at Life on Earth” . . . for the Life and the Earth Sciences
Sébastien Dutreuil
18 Big Dreams for Small Creatures: Ilana and Eugene Rosenberg’s Path to the Hologenome Theory
Ehud Lamm
Epilogue: The Scientist Dreamer
Joan Roughgarden
List of Contributors
Index
Biological Sciences: Evolutionary Biology
History: Environmental History | History of Ideas
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