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    Rethinking the Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

    I propose we abandon the unit concept of “the evolutionary synthesis”. There was much more to evolutionary studies in the 1920s and 1930s than is suggested in our commonplace narratives of this object in histo...

    Joe Cain in Journal of the History of Biology (2009)

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    Book reviews

    Edmund Russell, Mark C. Russell, Jenny Marie in Journal of the History of Biology (2005)

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    Co-opting Colleagues: Appropriating Dobzhansky's 1936 Lectures at Columbia

    This paper clarifies the chronology surroundingthe population geneticist TheodosiusDobzhansky's 1937 book, Genetics and theOrigin of Species. Most historians assume (a)Dobzhansky's book began as a series of `Jesu...

    Joe Cain in Journal of the History of Biology (2002)

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    Galapagos or bust

    A historical view of a busy scientific thoroughfare.

    Joe Cain in Nature (2001)

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    Woodger, Positivism, and the Evolutionary Synthesis

    In Unifying Biology, Smocovitis offers a series of claimsregarding the relationship between key actors in the synthesisperiod of evolutionary studies and “positivism,” especially claimsentailing Joseph Henry Wood...

    Joe Cain in Biology and Philosophy (2000)

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    Essay Review: Progress and Its Problems

    Joe Cain in Journal of the History of Biology (1999)

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    The J. H. B. Bookshelf

    Ronald Rainger, Joy Harvey, Mary P. Winsor, Joe Cain in Journal of the History of Biology (1997)