Frederick B Churchill
Biographic Data
| ID | 1066805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick B Churchill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick B |
| FAMILY NAME | Churchill |
| SIGNATURE | CHURCHILL F B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Haeckel’s Embryos
Reviewed by: Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud by Nick Hopwood Frederick B. Churchill Nick Hopwood. Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. vii +388 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-226-04694-5). Nick Hopwood has just written a large and complicated book of 388 pages on Ernst Haeckel’s publications. This modern work is double formatted on each [End Page 719] page and is richly illustrated f…
August Weismann
August Weismann's 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution
The evolutionary ethics of Alfred C. Kinsey
The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Preface Part I. The End of the Renaissance, 1600-1670: 1. The medical and scientific spirit of the first half of the seventeenth century 2. The battle with shadows 3. In search of clear ideas Conclusion Part II. The Scientists' Philosophy, 1670-1745: 4. The new scientific mentality 5. New discoveries in animal reproduction 6. The pre-existence of germs Conclusion Part III. The Philosophers' Science, 1745-1770: 8. Precursors and mavericks 9. Buffo…
Lords of the Fly
Reviewed by: Robert E. Kohler. Lords of the Fly: “Drosophila” Genetics and the Experimental Life Frederick B. Churchill Robert E. Kohler. Lords of the Fly: “Drosophila” Genetics and the Experimental Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xv + 321 pp. Ill. $45.00 (cloth), $17.95 (paperbound); £35.95 (cloth), £14.25 (paperbound). In this age of historiographical superawareness, when scholars strut across the stage displaying their nostru…
Politisch-biologische Analogien im Fruhwerk Rudolf Virchows . Renato G. Mazzolini , Klaus-Peter Tieck
The Heritage of Experimental Embryology
From Heredity Theory to Vererbung
Die Illustrationen Ernst Haeckels zur Abstammungs- und Entwicklunsgeschichte
The Descent of Darwin
Rudolf Virchow and the Pathologist's Criteria for the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Journal Article Rudolf Virchow and the Pathologist's Criteria for the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Get access FREDERICK B. CHURCHILL FREDERICK B. CHURCHILL Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana UniversityBloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, April 1976, Pages 117–148, https://doi.org/10.…
The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics . William B. Provine
Hertwig, Weismann, and the Meaning of Reduction Division circa 1890
From machine-theory to entelechy
From Heredity Theory to Vererbung
The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Preface Part I. The End of the Renaissance, 1600-1670: 1. The medical and scientific spirit of the first half of the seventeenth century 2. The battle with shadows 3. In search of clear ideas Conclusion Part II. The Scientists' Philosophy, 1670-1745: 4. The new scientific mentality 5. New discoveries in animal reproduction 6. The pre-existence of germs Conclusion Part III. The Philosophers' Science, 1745-1770: 8. Precursors and mavericks 9. Buffo…
August Weismann
August Weismann's 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution
Hertwig, Weismann, and the Meaning of Reduction Division circa 1890
Rudolf Virchow and the Pathologist's Criteria for the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Journal Article Rudolf Virchow and the Pathologist's Criteria for the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Get access FREDERICK B. CHURCHILL FREDERICK B. CHURCHILL Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana UniversityBloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, April 1976, Pages 117–148, https://doi.org/10.…
From machine-theory to entelechy
Hertwig, Weismann, and the Meaning of Reduction Division circa 1890
The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics . William B. Provine
Rudolf Virchow and the Pathologist's Criteria for the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Journal Article Rudolf Virchow and the Pathologist's Criteria for the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Get access FREDERICK B. CHURCHILL FREDERICK B. CHURCHILL Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana UniversityBloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, April 1976, Pages 117–148, https://doi.org/10.…
The Descent of Darwin
Die Illustrationen Ernst Haeckels zur Abstammungs- und Entwicklunsgeschichte
From Heredity Theory to Vererbung
The Heritage of Experimental Embryology
Politisch-biologische Analogien im Fruhwerk Rudolf Virchows . Renato G. Mazzolini , Klaus-Peter Tieck
Lords of the Fly
Reviewed by: Robert E. Kohler. Lords of the Fly: “Drosophila” Genetics and the Experimental Life Frederick B. Churchill Robert E. Kohler. Lords of the Fly: “Drosophila” Genetics and the Experimental Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xv + 321 pp. Ill. $45.00 (cloth), $17.95 (paperbound); £35.95 (cloth), £14.25 (paperbound). In this age of historiographical superawareness, when scholars strut across the stage displaying their nostru…
The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Preface Part I. The End of the Renaissance, 1600-1670: 1. The medical and scientific spirit of the first half of the seventeenth century 2. The battle with shadows 3. In search of clear ideas Conclusion Part II. The Scientists' Philosophy, 1670-1745: 4. The new scientific mentality 5. New discoveries in animal reproduction 6. The pre-existence of germs Conclusion Part III. The Philosophers' Science, 1745-1770: 8. Precursors and mavericks 9. Buffo…
The evolutionary ethics of Alfred C. Kinsey
August Weismann
August Weismann's 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution
Haeckel’s Embryos
Reviewed by: Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud by Nick Hopwood Frederick B. Churchill Nick Hopwood. Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. vii +388 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-226-04694-5). Nick Hopwood has just written a large and complicated book of 388 pages on Ernst Haeckel’s publications. This modern work is double formatted on each [End Page 719] page and is richly illustrated f…
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