OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the History of Biology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Dogs for Life: Beagles, Drugs, and Capital in the Twentieth Century	9
Characterized by Darkness: Reconsidering the Origins of the Brutish Neanderthal	7
Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited	6
Diauxic Inhibition: Jacques Monod's Ignored Work	6
Edinburgh Lamarckians? The Authorship of Three Anonymous Papers (1826–1829)	6
The Cyclical Return of the IQ Controversy: Revisiting the Lessons of the Resolution on Genetics, Race and Intelligence	6
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period	5
Mimush Sheep and the Spectre of Inbreeding: Historical Background for Festetics’s Organic and Genetic Laws Four Decades Before Mendel’s Experiments in Peas	4
The Cosmology of Evidence: Suffering, Science, and Biological Witness After Three Mile Island	4
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and the First Embryological Evolutionary Model on the Origin of Vertebrates	4
Model Organisms Unbound	4
Discovering DNA Methylation, the History and Future of the Writing on DNA	4
Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	4
Let Chromosomes Speak: The Cytogenetics Project at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC)	4
Disproportionate Impacts of Radiation Exposure on Women, Children, and Pregnancy: Taking Back our Narrative	4
Introduction: What Right? Which Organisms? Why Jobs?	4
Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology	4
“My Reputation is at Stake.” Humboldt's Mountain Plant Geography in the Making (1803–1825)	3
Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology	3
Redefining Boundaries: Ruth Myrtle Patrick’s Ecological Program at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1947–1975	3
Collaboration, Gender, and Leadership at the Minnesota Seaside Station, 1901–1907	3
Locating the Boundaries of the Nuclear North: Arctic Biology, Contaminated Caribou, and the Problem of the Threshold	3
Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–1932	3
International Culture Collections and the Value of Microbial Life: Johanna Westerdijk’s Fungi and Ernst Georg Pringsheim’s Algae	3
René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome	3

The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species	2
Catharine Beecher and the Mechanical Body: Physiology, Evangelism, and American Social Reform from the Antebellum Period to the Gilded Age	2
Chen Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–1936	2
Species Choice and Model Use: Reviving Research on Human Development	2
The Visual Politics of Maralinga: Experiences, (Re)presentations, and Vulnerabilities	2
From Monsters to Malformations: Anatomical Preparations as Objects of Evidence for a Developmental Paradigm of Embryology, 1770–1850	2
The Neo-Lamarckian Tools Deployed by the Young Durkheim: 1882–1892	2
The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress	2
Between Simians and Cell Lines: Rhesus Monkeys, Polio Research, and the Geopolitics of Tissue Culture (1934–1954)	2
Blowing in the Wind: Pollen’s Mobility as a Challenge to Measuring Climate by Proxy, 1916–1939	2
A Feeling for the Human Subject: Margaret Lasker and the Genetic Puzzle of Pentosuria	2
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation	2
A Critique of Darwin’s The Descent of Man by a Muslim Scholar in 1912: Muḥammad-Riḍā Iṣfahānī's Examination of the Anatomical and Embryological Similarities Between Human and Other Animals	2
Alisha Rankin. The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021, ISBN 9780226744858, 329 pp.	1
The Colonial State, African Dog-Owners, and the Political Economy of Rabies Vaccination Campaigns in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 1960s	1
Beyond the Instinct Debate: Daniel Lehrman’s Contributions to Animal Behavior Studies	1
Garland Allen’s Last Book Project	1
Reflections on Darwin Historiography	1
David P.D. Munns and Kärin Nickelsen. Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life-Support Systems in the Space Age, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN 9780822946540, 216 pp.	1
Biased, Spasmodic, and Ridiculously Incomplete: Sequence Stratigraphy and the Emergence of a New Approach to Stratigraphic Complexity in Paleobiology, 1973–1995	1
Nonhuman Primates in Public Health: Between Biological Standardization, Conservation and Care	1
The Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach	1
A Tale of Enduring Myths: Buffon’s Theory of Animal Degeneration and the Regeneration of Domesticated Animals in Mid-19th Century Brazil	1
The Darwin Correspondence Project and Pedagogy	1
Alexander Moritzi, a Swiss Pre-Darwinian Evolutionist: Insights into the Creationist-Transmutationist Debates of the 1830s and 1840s	1
Muscles or Movements? Representation in the Nascent Brain Sciences	1
Lords of the Fly Revisited	1
The Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters	1
A “Central Bureau of Feminine Algology:” Algae, Mutualism, and Gendered Ecological Perspectives, 1880–1910	1
The Elementary Organisms	1
The Overfishing Problem: Natural and Social Categories in Early Twentieth-Century Fisheries Science	1
From Entomological Research to Culturing Tissues: Aron Moscona’s Investigative Pathway	1
Connecting to the Living History of Radiation Exposure	1
Towards a Sinophone Insect Humanities: A Review Essay	1
Gregory Morgan. Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021, ISBN 1421444011, xiv + 373 pp.	1
Etienne S. Benson, Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalism (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 278 pp., 16 b&w illus., $27.50 Paper, ISBN: 9780226706290	1
Correction: Joel Hagen. Life out of Balance: Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021, ISBN 9780817320898, 360 pp	1
Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones	1
Ayo Wahlberg, Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China	1
Developing Sex: From Recremental Semen to Developmental Endocrinology	1
Embracing Mystery: Radiation Risks and Popular Science Writing in the Early Cold War	1
A Conversation with Darwin on Man Revisited: 150 Years to The Descent of Man	1
The Vera Causa of Endangered Species Legislation: Alfred Newton and the Wild Bird Preservation Acts, 1869–1894	1
The 2024 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	0
Frequency and Content of the Last Fifty Years of Papers on Aristotle’s Writings on Biological Phenomena	0
Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science	0
Jeannie N. Shinozuka, Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, 296 pp	0
Samantha Muka, Oceans under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN 9780226824130, 242 pp.	0
Book Review: Jenny Bangham. Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics	0
Everett Mendelsohn: The Harvard Professor	0

Reading and Writing the History of Biology at JHB	0
Everett Mendelsohn at the MBL	0
Mary Anne Andrei, Nature’s Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America’s Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780226730318, 250 pp.	0
Reflections on Making Mice (2004)	0
Liguus Landscapes: Amateur Liggers, Professional Malacology, and the Social Lives of Snail Sciences	0
Ashkenazi Anxieties: A Transnational Social History of Jewish Genetic Admixture Modeling, 1971–1986	0
Correction to: The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress	0
The Social Politics of Karl Escherich’s 1933 Inaugural Presidential Lecture	0
Marga Vicedo, Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother, Boston: Beacon Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780807055519, 272 pp.	0
The Schema and Organization of the Cell: An Introduction to Ernst Brücke’s Die Elementarorganismen (1861)	0
The Return of the Geneticist: Theodosius Dobzhansky, Edward Chapin, and Museum Taxonomy	0
Everett Mendelsohn, the Harvard Colleague	0
Studying Regeneration Through History as a Way of Looking Forward	0
Book Review: Sherrie Lyons, From Cells to Organisms: Re-envisioning Cell Theory	0
Anita Guerrini, Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR, 2nd ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9781421444055, 208 pp.	0
Pattern Without Process: Eugen Smirnov and the Earliest Project of Numerical Taxonomy (1923–1938)	0
Garland E. Allen (1936-2023), Historian of Life Science	0
JHB’s Darwin Collection	0
Everett Mendelsohn, One Colleague’s Remembrances	0
Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp.	0
Everett Mendelsohn (1931-2023): Founding Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology	0
The Shelf Life of Skulls: Anthropology and ‘race’ in the Vrolik Craniological Collection	0
Eloge: Paul Lawrence Farber (1944–2021)	0
Nicole C. Nelson, Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 272 pp., 6 b&w illus., $30.00 Paperback, I	0
Making a French Connection: Darwin, Brown-Séquard and the Epilepsy Studies	0
Soraya de Chadarevian, Heredity Under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 272 pp, 36 halftones, $112.50 Cloth, ISBN 978022668508	0
Maura Flannery, In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780300247916, 335 pp.	0
Correction: Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp	0
Alexander Dalrymple, the Utility of Coral Reefs, and Charles Darwin’s Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs	0
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, ISBN: 0226823016, 348 pp.	0
Kathleen S. Murphy, Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781469675909, 256 pp.	0
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226825328, 256 pp.	0
Sharon E. Kingsland, A Lab for All Seasons: The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology, 2023, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN: 9780300267228, 385 pp.	0
Gregory Radick, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226822723, 630 pp.	0
Raf De Bont, Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism & Preservation, 1920–1960. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946618, x + 373 pp	0
Rena Selya, Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America, Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780262046466, 248 pp.	0
In Memory of Paul Farber (1944–2021), Third Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology	0
Dialectical Materialism Serves Voluntarist Productivism: The Epistemic Foundation of Lysenkoism in Socialist China and North Vietnam	0
Havelock Ellis, Sexology, and Sexual Selection in Post-Darwinian Evolutionary Biology	0
Balancing the Synthesis	0
Alfredo Morabia, The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19, Baltimore: Johns Hopkin University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781421446783, 232 pp.	0
Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe, A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities, and Projects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN: 9783031061295, 380 pp.	0
Hey Hey We’re the Monkeys! An Essay Review of Gowan Dawson’s Monkey to Man	0
Inaugural Editorial	0
Correction to: Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–1936	0
Luke Keogh, The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226713618, 288 pp	0
Editorial	0
Neeraja Sankaran, A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946304, 312 pp	0
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn	0
Darwin and the White Shipwrecked Sailor: Beyond Blending Inheritance and the Jenkin Myth	0
2022 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	0
Sociobiology on Screen. The Controversy Through the Lens of Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturally	0
The Study of Geographical Distribution in the Analysis of Domestication as an Evolutionary Process: Tensions in Alphonse de Candolle’s Approach	0
“Keep the Faith:” Memories of Everett Mendelson	0
Janina Wellman, Biological Motion: A History of Life, New York: Zone Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781942130819, pp. 336	0
Joel Schwartz, Robert Brown and Mungo Park: Travels and Explorations in Natural History for the Royal Society, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden no. 122, Cham: Springer, 2021, ISBN: 97830307486	0
Correction to: Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	0
A “Mean Quarrelsome Spirit:” Controversy in British Systematics, 1822–1836	0
Invasion on So Grand a Scale: Darwin, Lyell, and Invasive Species	0
Buffon, Species and the Forces of Reproduction	0
Book Review: Daniel Navon, Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), 348 pp. 11 halftones, $40.00 Cloth, ISBN: 9780226638096	0
Erika Lorraine Milam, Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019), 408 pp., 33 b/w illus., $29.95 Cloth, ISBN: 9780691181882	0
“From the Known to the Unknown:” Nature’s Diversity, Materia Medica, and Analogy in 18th Century Botany, Through the Work of Tournefort, the Jussieu Brothers, and Linnaeus	0
The Yale Geochronometric Laboratory and the Rewriting of Global Environmental History	0
Correction to: Diauxic Inhibition: Jacques Monod’s Ignored Work	0
James Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions 1820–1858, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780822966340, 234 pp.	0
Lisa Haushofer, Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition, Oakland: University of California Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780520390409, 270 pp.	0
“Pray Observe How Time Slips By:” Collaborators, Assistants, and the Background Dynamics in the Publication of Darwin’s Cirripedia Project	0
JHB’s “New Developments in Darwin Studies?” Redux	0
“Not by a Decree of Fate:” Ellen Richards, Euthenics, and the Environment in the Progressive Era	0
Remembering Garland Edward Allen, III (1936–2023), Second Editor of Journal of the History of Biology	0
Beginnings: Everett Mendelsohn, 1963–1973	0
Ian Hesketh, ed., Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, ISBN: 97808229470	0
2021 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	0
Correction to: Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited	0
Correction to: An Origin of Citations: Darwin’s Collaborators and Their Contributions to the Origin of Species	0
Emma Kowal, Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781478027539, 264 pp.	0
Nathan Crowe, Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946274, 299 pp.	0
“The Logic of Monsters:” Pere Alberch and the Evolutionary Significance of Experimental Teratology	0
The Making of the Sambucana: On Memory, the Body, and the Production of Bioheritage	0

Laura J. Martin, Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration Cambridge, USA: Harvard University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780674979420, 336 pp.	0
“At a Glance:” The Role of Diagrammatic Representations in Eugenics Appropriations of the “Infamous Juke Family”	0
The Business with “Bugs”: Ruminology and the Commercial Feed Industry in the United States	0
Karl S. Matlin, Crossing the Boundaries of Life: Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780226819235, 368 pp	0
Three-Dimensional Phylogeny in Two Dimensions: How Darwin and Other Nineteenth-Century Naturalists Created Three-Dimensional Figures of the Natural System by Combining Trees of Life and Maps of Affini	0
2023 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	0
Sperm-Force: Naturphilosophie and George Newport’s Quest to Discover the Secret of Fertilization	0
Everett Mendelsohn: A Splendid Mentor, Primary Source, and Champion	0
How Phenograms and Cladograms Became Molecular Phylogenetic Trees	0
A Few Hours a Week: Everett Mendelsohn as Teacher, Mentor, and Exemplar	0
A Biogeographical Debate at the Origins of Limnology in Switzerland and Italy: The Issue over Pelagic Fauna Between Pietro Pavesi and François-Alphonse Forel	0
Colin Webster, Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226828770, 320 pp.	0
Nadine Weidman, Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780674983472, 368 pp.	0
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn, a Kind and Generous Mentor	0
William Lawrence Tower’s Beetles: Experimental Evolution and the Manipulation of Inheritance	0
Recapitulation, Heredity, and Freud’s View of Human Nature	0
Species Transformation and Social Reform: The Role of the Will in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s Transformist Theory	0
Stefanie Gänger, A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9781108842167, 300 pp.	0