Dreamers, visionaries, and revolutionaries in the life sciences / edited by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich.
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Perchance to dream : fostering novelty in the life sciences / Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich
- Part 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
- Part 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
- Part 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
- Part 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
- Part 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
- Part 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 / J oan Roughgarden.