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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Everett Mendelsohn, the Harvard Colleague	16
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation	8
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period	8
Luke Keogh, The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226713618, 288 pp	8
Marco Tamborini, The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780822947356, 283 pp	7
Situating Commemoration: An Editorial Introduction	7
Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science	7
The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes Arber’s Philosophy of Plants	5
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226825328, 256 pp.	5
Janina Wellman, Biological Motion: A History of Life, New York: Zone Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781942130819, pp. 336	4
Everett Mendelsohn: The Harvard Professor	4
“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	4
The Shelf Life of Skulls: Anthropology and ‘race’ in the Vrolik Craniological Collection	4
Correction: Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp	3
Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes (ed.), Understanding Evolution in Darwin’s Origin: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Theory (History, Philosophy, and Theory of the Life Sciences, volume 34), Cham: S	3
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.	3
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.	3
Sperm-Force: Naturphilosophie and George Newport’s Quest to Discover the Secret of Fertilization	3
Garland Allen’s Last Book Project	2
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	2
The 2025 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	2
Reworking Blood Typing in Republican China: Medical Practice, Ethnic Knowledge, and Popular Culture, 1918–1948	2
Lisa Haushofer, Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition, Oakland: University of California Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780520390409, 270 pp.	2
The Making of the Sambucana: On Memory, the Body, and the Production of Bioheritage	2
Maura Flannery, In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780300247916, 335 pp.	2

Recapitulation, Heredity, and Freud’s View of Human Nature	2
Plants, Pictures, and People	2
Sociobiology on Screen. The Controversy Through the Lens of Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturally	2
Studying Regeneration Through History as a Way of Looking Forward	2
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	1
The Elementary Organisms	1
Beginnings: Everett Mendelsohn, 1963–1973	1
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn	1
The Contributions—and Collapse—of Lamarckism in Pasteurian Molecular Biology: 2. Enzymatic Adaptation, 1920–1965	1
The Different Career Patterns of Two Pathbreaking Women Biologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem	1
Assetizing Diversity: Microbial Culture Collections in an Age of Biotechnology, Biodiversity, and Speculative Value Generation (1972–2022)	1
“At a Glance:” The Role of Diagrammatic Representations in Eugenics Appropriations of the “Infamous Juke Family”	1
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	1
Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe, A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities, and Projects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN: 9783031061295, 380 pp.	1
On “Hennig’s Dilemma” and the Post-Systematics Wars	1
Species Transformation and Social Reform: The Role of the Will in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s Transformist Theory	1
Shifting Values and Shifting Risks: Debates on the New Biology in Germany and the United States Before and After Asilomar (1960–1980)	1
James Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions 1820–1858, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780822966340, 234 pp.	1
“Keep the Faith:” Memories of Everett Mendelson	1
The Study of Geographical Distribution in the Analysis of Domestication as an Evolutionary Process: Tensions in Alphonse de Candolle’s Approach	1
Nadine Weidman, Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780674983472, 368 pp.	1
Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones	1
The Pre-Linnaean Herbarium of Paolo Boccone (1633–1704) in Wrocław, Poland: Its History, Description, its Purpose, and its Usefulness for Historians of Science	1
Patrick Spero, André Michaux and Thomas Jefferson and the Conspiracy of 1793, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780813952192, 334 pp.	1
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.	1
Peter J. Bowler, Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978110884225-6, 314 pp.	1
Culture, Codes, Communities: Culture Collections’ Transformation from Microbial Palaces to Networked Services (1890–1972)	1
On Loving and Leaving Zoos	1
Imperial Microbiology: The National Collection of Type Cultures and the Management of Microorganisms, 1916–1922	1
The 2024 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	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
Atomic Botany: The Botanical Career of Janice Carson Beatley, and the Flora, Vegetation, and Ecology of the Nevada Test Site in Cold War United States (1959–1973)	0
The Curious Incident of Crick in the Night-Time and Other Asilomar Enigmas	0
The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species	0
How Phenograms and Cladograms Became Molecular Phylogenetic Trees	0
Publisher Correction: Peter J. Bowler, Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978110884225-6, 314 pp	0
Wallace Reconsidered	0
Rena Selya, Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America, Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780262046466, 248 pp.	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
Havelock Ellis, Sexology, and Sexual Selection in Post-Darwinian Evolutionary Biology	0
Correction: A “Mean Quarrelsome Spirit:” Controversy in British Systematics, 1822–1836	0
Living Fossil: A Metaphor’s Travels Across Popular Culture and the Foundations of Darwinian Evolution and Anthropology	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
Richard G. Delisle, Maurizio Esposito, and David Ceccarelli, eds. Unity and Disunity in Evolutionary Biology: Deconstructing Darwinism	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
Everett Mendelsohn (1931-2023): Founding Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology	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
Christian Warren, Starved for Light: The long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780226151939, 288 pp.	0
Restoring a Place for Biographies in the History of Science	0
Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp.	0

How to Civilize Elites: Controlling “Foreign Scientists” at a Field Station in the Galápagos Islands	0
Kostas Kampourakis, How We Get Mendel Wrong, and Why It Matters: Challenging the Narrative of Mendelian Genetics, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2024, ISBN 9781032456904, 250 pp.	0
The Social Politics of Karl Escherich’s 1933 Inaugural Presidential Lecture	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
Remembering Garland Edward Allen, III (1936–2023), Second Editor of Journal of the History of Biology	0
Ηοlistic Ecology: Dispelling the Myth of Being Romantic	0
Jim Endersby, The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025, ISBN: 9780226837543, 400 pp.	0
Hey Hey We’re the Monkeys! An Essay Review of Gowan Dawson’s Monkey to Man	0
The Embryo Project: A Rich Resource for the HPS Community	0
Roberta L. Millstein, The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780226834481, 183 pp.	0
Brad Bolman, Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025, ISBN: 9780226825533, 384 pp.	0
Introducing “Notes and Sources”	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
Reading and Writing the History of Biology at JHB	0
Savithri Preetha Nair, Chromosome Woman, Nomad Scientist: E. K. Janaki Ammal, A Life 1897–1984, London and New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2023, ISBN: 9781032035482, 611 pp.	0
A Tale of Enduring Myths: Buffon’s Theory of Animal Degeneration and the Regeneration of Domesticated Animals in Mid-19th Century Brazil	0
2023 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	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
“Helping to Bridge the Gap Between Genetics and Development:ˮ Julian Huxley, Early 20th Century Oxford Biology, and the Epigenetic Origins of Animal Characters	0
Elisabeth S. Vrba, the “Three Musketeers,” and the Expansion of Macroevolutionary Theory	0
The Schema and Organization of the Cell: An Introduction to Ernst Brücke’s Die Elementarorganismen (1861)	0
Laura J. Martin, Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration Cambridge, USA: Harvard University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780674979420, 336 pp.	0
The Return of the Geneticist: Theodosius Dobzhansky, Edward Chapin, and Museum Taxonomy	0
The Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach	0
Everett Mendelsohn: A Splendid Mentor, Primary Source, and Champion	0
John Calhoun’s ‘Strange’ Rodent Tale? Constructing and Consuming Interdisciplinary Pasts and Futures	0
Matthew Wale: Making Entomologists: How Periodicals Shaped Scientific Communities in Nineteenth-Century Britain	0
René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome	0
Buffon, Species and the Forces of Reproduction	0
Lee B. Kass, From Chromosomes to Mobile Genetic Elements: The Life and Work of Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2024, ISBN: 9781032365329, 265 pp.	0
The Industry of Wallace and the Wallace Industry	0
William Lawrence Tower’s Beetles: Experimental Evolution and the Manipulation of Inheritance	0
Alexander Dalrymple, the Utility of Coral Reefs, and Charles Darwin’s Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs	0
Garland E. Allen (1936-2023), Historian of Life Science	0
Emma Kowal, Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781478027539, 264 pp.	0
A “Central Bureau of Feminine Algology:” Algae, Mutualism, and Gendered Ecological Perspectives, 1880–1910	0
Developing Sex: From Recremental Semen to Developmental Endocrinology	0
Darwin and the White Shipwrecked Sailor: Beyond Blending Inheritance and the Jenkin Myth	0
“Not by a Decree of Fate:” Ellen Richards, Euthenics, and the Environment in the Progressive Era	0
Helen Anne Curry, Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction	0
Biased, Spasmodic, and Ridiculously Incomplete: Sequence Stratigraphy and the Emergence of a New Approach to Stratigraphic Complexity in Paleobiology, 1973–1995	0
Alfred Russel Wallace’s Darwinian Opposition to Eugenics	0
Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology	0
Balancing the Synthesis	0
Everett Mendelsohn at the MBL	0
Alison Bashford, The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, ISBN 9780226720111, 576 pp.	0
Beyond the Instinct Debate: Daniel Lehrman’s Contributions to Animal Behavior Studies	0
Nonhuman Primates in Public Health: Between Biological Standardization, Conservation and Care	0
Everett Mendelsohn, One Colleague’s Remembrances	0
“The Logic of Monsters:” Pere Alberch and the Evolutionary Significance of Experimental Teratology	0
Environment, Tropical Disease, and Scientific Networks in Argentina: Folclore and Multiscalar Mobilities	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
“My Reputation is at Stake.” Humboldt's Mountain Plant Geography in the Making (1803–1825)	0
Muscles or Movements? Representation in the Nascent Brain Sciences	0
Asilomar Goes Underground: The Long Legacy of Recombinant DNA Hazard Debates for the Greater Boston Area Biotechnology Industry	0
The Yale Geochronometric Laboratory and the Rewriting of Global Environmental History	0
Reconsidering Utter Extinction	0
Pattern Without Process: Eugen Smirnov and the Earliest Project of Numerical Taxonomy (1923–1938)	0
Discovering DNA Methylation, the History and Future of the Writing on DNA	0
Asilomar, Gene Cloning’s Origins, and Its Commercial Fate	0
The Neo-Lamarckian Tools Deployed by the Young Durkheim: 1882–1892	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
Of Epistemes and Insects: How Drosophila and Butterflies Shape Our Understanding of Radiation Risk	0
James T. Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780691233796, 515 pp.	0
The 2026 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	0
Tim Harris: In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey through 50 Years of Biotechnology	0
Asilomar Across the Atlantic: EMBO, EMBL, and the Politics of Scientific Expertise	0
Announcement	0
Ashkenazi Anxieties: A Transnational Social History of Jewish Genetic Admixture Modeling, 1971–1986	0
Nathan Crowe, Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946274, 299 pp.	0
Andrew Cunningham, “I Follow Aristotle:” How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood, Routledge: London and New York, 2022, ISBN: 9781032162232, xii + 180 pp.	0
Invasion on So Grand a Scale: Darwin, Lyell, and Invasive Species	0
Darwin’s “Dark Matter” and the History of Biology: An Editorial Introduction	0
Stefanie Gänger, A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9781108842167, 300 pp.	0
A Few Hours a Week: Everett Mendelsohn as Teacher, Mentor, and Exemplar	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
“Pray Observe How Time Slips By:” Collaborators, Assistants, and the Background Dynamics in the Publication of Darwin’s Cirripedia Project	0
The Rotational Flow of Blood as Described in a 14th Century Persian Manuscript	0
A “Mean Quarrelsome Spirit:” Controversy in British Systematics, 1822–1836	0
Liguus Landscapes: Amateur Liggers, Professional Malacology, and the Social Lives of Snail Sciences	0

Adrian Desmond, Reign of the Beast: The Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution	0
Inaugural Editorial	0
Philippe Huneman: Death: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology	0
Changing Sex: Frank Lillie and the Discovery of the Free-Martin	0
Why Darwin and Wallace Disagreed About Domestic Varieties	0
Hyung Wook Park, Creationism in South Korean Culture: Science, Religion, and the Struggle against Evolution, London: Routledge, 2024, ISBN: 9781032757148, 222 pp.	0
Theresa Levitt, Elixir: A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780674250895, 320 pp.	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
Editorial	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
Gregory Morgan. Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021, ISBN 1421444011, xiv + 373 pp.	0
Introduction: Revis(it)ing Asilomar	0
Myrna Perez, Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024, ISBN 9781421450155, 248pp.	0
Neal A. Knapp, Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781421446554, 216 pp.	0
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.	0
Species Choice and Model Use: Reviving Research on Human Development	0
Raf De Bont, Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism & Preservation, 1920–1960. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946618, x + 373 pp	0
Marianne Sommer, The Diagrammatics of ‘Race:’ Visualizing Human Relatedness in the History of Physical, Evolutionary, and Genetic Anthropology, ca. 1770–2020, Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024	0
Beyond Controversy? The Promotion and Early Critical Reception of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Fifty Years Later	0
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn, a Kind and Generous Mentor	0
Andreas Daum, Alexander Von Humboldt: A Concise Biography, Trans. Robert Savage, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780691247366, 208 pp.	0