Michael R Dietrich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1082478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael R Dietrich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael R |
| FAMILY NAME | Dietrich |
| SIGNATURE | DIETRICH M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College 1 , Hanover, NH |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How to choose your research organism
Despite August Krogh's famous admonition that a 'convenient' organism exists for every biological problem, we argue that appeals to 'convenience' are not sufficient to capture reasoning about organism choice. Instead, we offer a detailed analysis based on empirical data and philosophical arguments for a working set of twenty criteria that interact with each other in the highly contextualized judgements that biologists make about organism choice. …
Extreme’ organisms and the problem of generalization
Many biologists appeal to the so-called Krogh principle when justifying their choice of experimental organisms. The principle states that "for a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied". Despite its popularity, the principle is often critiqued for implying unwarranted generalizations from optimal models. We argue that the Krogh principle should be interprete…
Haeckel’s Embryos
In this book, Nick Hopwood masterfully reconstructs a set of three related controversies regarding Ernst Haeckel’s infamous diagrams comparing the embryos of different species. These iconic images depicting similar developmental trajectories for vertebrates ranging from fish to chickens to human beings became widely reproduced textbook illustrations of the embryological evidence for evolution even while embryologists were calling their veracity i…
Parsing postgenomics
The diversification of developmental biology
Experimenting with sex
The Role of Causal Processes in the Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories
The neutral and nearly neutral theories of molecular evolution are sometimes characterized as theories about drift alone, where drift is described solely as an outcome, rather than a process. We argue, however, that both selection and drift, as causal processes, are integral parts of both theories. However, the nearly neutral theory explicitly recognizes alleles and/or molecular substitutions that, while engaging in weakly selected causal process…
Three Perspectives on Neutrality and Drift in Molecular Evolution
This article offers three contrasting cases of the use of neutrality and drift in molecular evolution. In the first, neutrality is assumed as a simplest case for modeling. In the second and third, concepts of drift and neutrality are developed within the context of population genetics testing and the development and application of the molecular clock
Two Men Who Invented Genetics
Gregor Mendel
How to choose your research organism
Despite August Krogh's famous admonition that a 'convenient' organism exists for every biological problem, we argue that appeals to 'convenience' are not sufficient to capture reasoning about organism choice. Instead, we offer a detailed analysis based on empirical data and philosophical arguments for a working set of twenty criteria that interact with each other in the highly contextualized judgements that biologists make about organism choice. …
Extreme’ organisms and the problem of generalization
Many biologists appeal to the so-called Krogh principle when justifying their choice of experimental organisms. The principle states that "for a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied". Despite its popularity, the principle is often critiqued for implying unwarranted generalizations from optimal models. We argue that the Krogh principle should be interprete…
Experimenting with sex
The diversification of developmental biology
The Role of Causal Processes in the Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories
The neutral and nearly neutral theories of molecular evolution are sometimes characterized as theories about drift alone, where drift is described solely as an outcome, rather than a process. We argue, however, that both selection and drift, as causal processes, are integral parts of both theories. However, the nearly neutral theory explicitly recognizes alleles and/or molecular substitutions that, while engaging in weakly selected causal process…
Three Perspectives on Neutrality and Drift in Molecular Evolution
This article offers three contrasting cases of the use of neutrality and drift in molecular evolution. In the first, neutrality is assumed as a simplest case for modeling. In the second and third, concepts of drift and neutrality are developed within the context of population genetics testing and the development and application of the molecular clock
Gregor Mendel
Two Men Who Invented Genetics
Three Perspectives on Neutrality and Drift in Molecular Evolution
This article offers three contrasting cases of the use of neutrality and drift in molecular evolution. In the first, neutrality is assumed as a simplest case for modeling. In the second and third, concepts of drift and neutrality are developed within the context of population genetics testing and the development and application of the molecular clock
The Role of Causal Processes in the Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories
The neutral and nearly neutral theories of molecular evolution are sometimes characterized as theories about drift alone, where drift is described solely as an outcome, rather than a process. We argue, however, that both selection and drift, as causal processes, are integral parts of both theories. However, the nearly neutral theory explicitly recognizes alleles and/or molecular substitutions that, while engaging in weakly selected causal process…
The diversification of developmental biology
Experimenting with sex
Parsing postgenomics
Haeckel’s Embryos
In this book, Nick Hopwood masterfully reconstructs a set of three related controversies regarding Ernst Haeckel’s infamous diagrams comparing the embryos of different species. These iconic images depicting similar developmental trajectories for vertebrates ranging from fish to chickens to human beings became widely reproduced textbook illustrations of the embryological evidence for evolution even while embryologists were calling their veracity i…
Extreme’ organisms and the problem of generalization
Many biologists appeal to the so-called Krogh principle when justifying their choice of experimental organisms. The principle states that "for a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied". Despite its popularity, the principle is often critiqued for implying unwarranted generalizations from optimal models. We argue that the Krogh principle should be interprete…
How to choose your research organism
Despite August Krogh's famous admonition that a 'convenient' organism exists for every biological problem, we argue that appeals to 'convenience' are not sufficient to capture reasoning about organism choice. Instead, we offer a detailed analysis based on empirical data and philosophical arguments for a working set of twenty criteria that interact with each other in the highly contextualized judgements that biologists make about organism choice. …
Biology (9 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Genetics (5 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (5 works) · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Evolutionary biology (3 works) · Genetics (3 works)