Michael R. Dietrich

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Michael R. Dietrich

Biology

#5037

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#7422

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#1799

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Genetics

#1654

World Rank

#1762

Historical Rank

#320

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Molecular Biology

#2784

World Rank

#2828

Historical Rank

#323

USA Rank

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Michael R. Dietrich's Degrees

PhD Biology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Genetics Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Michael R. Dietrich is a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. His research concerns developments in twentieth century genetics, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology, with a special emphasis on scientific controversies.

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MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion (2009) (244)
Paradox and Persuasion: Negotiating the Place of Molecular Evolution within Evolutionary Biology (1998) (96)
The origins of the neutral theory of molecular evolution (1994) (87)
Integration without Unification: An Argument for Pluralism in the Biological Sciences (2006) (69)
Richard Goldschmidt: hopeful monsters and other 'heresies' (2003) (61)
From Hopeful Monsters to Homeotic Effects: Richard Goldschmidt's Integration of Development, Evolution, and Genetics1 (2000) (54)
Richard Goldschmidt's “heresies” and the evolutionary synthesis (1995) (46)
Publication Trends in Model Organism Research (2014) (45)
(Mis)interpreting Mathematical Models: Drift as a Physical Process (2009) (42)
Outsider scientists : routes to innovation in biology (2013) (39)
Manipulating Underdetermination in Scientific Controversy: The Case of the Molecular Clock (2007) (38)
From Gene to Genetic Hierarchy: Richard Goldschmidt and the Problem of the Gene (2000) (32)
How to choose your research organism. (2019) (26)
‘Extreme’ organisms and the problem of generalization: interpreting the Krogh principle (2018) (25)
Journal of the History of Biology (1968) (24)
Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (2008) (20)
Beyond the Boss and the Boys: Women and the Division of Labor in Drosophila Genetics in the United States, 1934–1970 (2007) (20)
Monte Carlo experiments and the defense of diffusion models in molecular population genetics (1996) (18)
Explaining the "Pulse of Protoplasm": the search for molecular mechanisms of protoplasmic streaming. (2015) (18)
Microevolution and Macroevolution are Governed by the Same Processes (2009) (18)
The problem of the gene. (2000) (17)
A shifting terrain: a brief history of the adaptive landscape (2012) (16)
HOMEOTIC MUTANTS AND THE ASSIMILATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS INTO THE EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS, 1915―1952 (2009) (13)
Discovering Cell Mechanisms: The Creation of Modern Cell Biology.Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology.ByWilliam Bechtel.Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.$75.00. xii + 323 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–521–81247–X. 2006. (2006) (13)
The diversification of developmental biology. (2015) (13)
Of moths and men: Theo Lang and the persistence of Richard Goldschmidt's theory of homosexuality, 1916-1960. (2000) (13)
Reinventing Richard Goldschmidt: Reputation, Memory, and Biography (2011) (11)
The Role of Causal Processes in the Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories (2008) (11)
On the Mutability of Genes and Geneticists: The “Americanization” of Richard Goldschmidt and Victor Jollos (1996) (10)
Sewall Wright's Adaptive Landscape: Philosophical Reflections on Heuristic Value (2012) (9)
Three Perspectives on Neutrality and Drift in Molecular Evolution (2006) (8)
Representing the object of controversy: the case of the molecular clock. (2007) (6)
Dreamers, visionaries, and revolutionaries in the life sciences (2018) (6)
The Educated Eye (2011) (5)
Richard Goldschmidt and the crossing-over controversy. (2002) (5)
Experimenting with sex: four approaches to the genetics of sex reversal before 1950 (2016) (5)
Inaugurating the Everett Mendelsohn Prize (2016) (3)
The Journal of the History of Biology at 50 (2017) (3)
Duhem’s problem revisited: logical versus epistemic formulations and solutions (2018) (3)
Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic . By Frederick Grinnell . Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press . $27.95. xv + 230 p.; ill.; index. 978‐0‐19‐506457‐5 . 2009 . (2009) (2)
Richard C. Lewontin (1929–2021) (2021) (2)
Molecular Evolution, History of (2016) (2)
What Is the Nature of Scientific Controversies in the Biological Sciences? (2020) (2)
7. Striking the Hornet’s Nest: Richard Goldschmidt’s Rejection of the Particulate Gene (2017) (2)
Underdetermination and the Limits of Interpretative Flexibility (1993) (2)
Genesis: The Evolution of Biology.ByJan Sapp.Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $70.00 (hardcover); $29.95 (paper). xix + 364 p; index. ISBN: 0–19–515618–8 (hc); 0–19–515619–6 (pb). 2003. (2004) (2)
The postgenomic shipwright (2004) (1)
Embryology in wax (2002) (1)
Introduction: Revisiting Garland Allen’s Views on the History of the Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century (2016) (1)
Introduction: Revisiting Garland Allen’s Views on the History of the Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century (2016) (1)
Book Review:Gregor Mendel: The First Geneticist Vitezslav Orel, Stephen Finn (1998) (1)
Theoreticians as Professional Outsiders : The Modeling Strategies of (2012) (1)
Leah Ceccarelli.Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrödinger, and Wilson. xi + 204 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. $20 (paper). (2004) (1)
Underdetermination in Scientiªc Controversy: The Case of the Molecular Clock (2007) (0)
Darwinian evolution across the disciplines. (2001) (0)
Ernest ‘Chinese’ Wilson’s Re-imagined Legacy in Sichuan (2019) (0)
Inaugurating the Everett Mendelsohn Prize (2016) (0)
Research Diversity and Richness in GEIS, 1950-1963 (2015) (0)
History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Biology (2009) (0)
Growth in GEIS Research Areas, 1949-1963 (2015) (0)
Gregor Mendel: The First Geneticist (1998) (0)
Richard Lewontin and the "complications of linkage". (2021) (0)
Jody Hey,Genes, Categories, and Species: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Causes of the Species Problem. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2001), xvii+217pp., $54.50 (cloth). (2004) (0)
Looking Toward the Next Fifty Years at the Journal of the History of Biology (2017) (0)
Writing the Future: Progress and Evolution.Edited byDavid Rothenbergand, Wandee J Pryor.A Terra Nova Book.Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press. $29.95. xv + 274 p; ill.; no index. ISBN: 0–262–18235–1. 2004. (2005) (0)
Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud, by Nick Hopwood (2017) (0)
High Redshift Quasars and Elemental Abundances (1999) (0)
New Perspectives on the Historiography of Biology (2020) (0)
The rise of the classical gene: a review of In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA, by James Schwartz (2009) (0)
Nature Remade (2021) (0)
Book Review: Elof Axel Carlson, Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics (2004) (0)
Postgenomics: Perspectives on biology after the genome, Sarah S. Richardson, Hallam Stevens (Eds.). Duke University Press, Durham, NC. (2015), 304, Price $94.95 Hardcover, ISBN - 978-0-8223-5922-7 (2016) (0)
The Delphic Boat: What Genomes Tell Us (2003) (0)
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism . Edited by Susanne Heim, Carola Sachse, and Mark Walker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. xxiv + 477. Cloth $92.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87906-4. Paper $36.99. ISBN 978-0-521-18154-9. (2014) (0)
The Richard Benedict Goldschmidt papers. (1998) (0)
GEIS Research Topics Data, 1959-1961 (2015) (0)
The First Everett Mendelsohn Prize (2017) (0)
Two Men Who Invented Genetics (2005) (0)
‘Extreme’ organisms and the problem of generalization: interpreting the Krogh principle (2018) (0)
Looking Toward the Next Fifty Years at the Journal of the History of Biology (2017) (0)
Experimenting with sex: four approaches to the genetics of sex reversal before 1950 (2015) (0)
The Historiography of Genetics (2020) (0)
Nature Remade: Engineering Life from the Past to Future Worlds (2020) (0)
The First Everett Mendelsohn Prize (2017) (0)
The Journal of the History of Biology at 50 (2017) (0)
Book Review Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine By Susan Lindee. 270 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. $40. 0-8018-8175-7 (2006) (0)
Philosophy of Biology (1994) (0)

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