Journal of the History of Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of the History of Biology is 1. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dogs for Life: Beagles, Drugs, and Capital in the Twentieth Century9
Characterized by Darkness: Reconsidering the Origins of the Brutish Neanderthal7
The Cyclical Return of the IQ Controversy: Revisiting the Lessons of the Resolution on Genetics, Race and Intelligence6
Diauxic Inhibition: Jacques Monod's Ignored Work6
Edinburgh Lamarckians? The Authorship of Three Anonymous Papers (1826–1829)6
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period5
Mimush Sheep and the Spectre of Inbreeding: Historical Background for Festetics’s Organic and Genetic Laws Four Decades Before Mendel’s Experiments in Peas4
The Cosmology of Evidence: Suffering, Science, and Biological Witness After Three Mile Island4
Let Chromosomes Speak: The Cytogenetics Project at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC)4
Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited4
Discovering DNA Methylation, the History and Future of the Writing on DNA4
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and the First Embryological Evolutionary Model on the Origin of Vertebrates4
Disproportionate Impacts of Radiation Exposure on Women, Children, and Pregnancy: Taking Back our Narrative4
Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–19804
Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology4
Model Organisms Unbound3
International Culture Collections and the Value of Microbial Life: Johanna Westerdijk’s Fungi and Ernst Georg Pringsheim’s Algae3
René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome3
“My Reputation is at Stake.” Humboldt's Mountain Plant Geography in the Making (1803–1825)3
Locating the Boundaries of the Nuclear North: Arctic Biology, Contaminated Caribou, and the Problem of the Threshold3
“What is Dead May Not Die”: Locating Marginalized Concepts Among Ordinary Biologists3
Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–19323
Collaboration, Gender, and Leadership at the Minnesota Seaside Station, 1901–19073
Introduction: What Right? Which Organisms? Why Jobs?3
Redefining Boundaries: Ruth Myrtle Patrick’s Ecological Program at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1947–19753
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 Animals2
Blowing in the Wind: Pollen’s Mobility as a Challenge to Measuring Climate by Proxy, 1916–19392
The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species2
Catharine Beecher and the Mechanical Body: Physiology, Evangelism, and American Social Reform from the Antebellum Period to the Gilded Age2
The Neo-Lamarckian Tools Deployed by the Young Durkheim: 1882–18922
Valuing Shorebirds: Bureaucracy, Natural History, and Expertise in North American Conservation2
Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology2
From Monsters to Malformations: Anatomical Preparations as Objects of Evidence for a Developmental Paradigm of Embryology, 1770–18502
The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress2
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation2
Between Simians and Cell Lines: Rhesus Monkeys, Polio Research, and the Geopolitics of Tissue Culture (1934–1954)2
The Visual Politics of Maralinga: Experiences, (Re)presentations, and Vulnerabilities2
A Feeling for the Human Subject: Margaret Lasker and the Genetic Puzzle of Pentosuria2
Evolution as a Solution: Franco Andrea Bonelli, Lamarck, and the Origin of Man in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italy2
Chen Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–19362
Embracing Mystery: Radiation Risks and Popular Science Writing in the Early Cold War1
The Overfishing Problem: Natural and Social Categories in Early Twentieth-Century Fisheries Science1
The Vera Causa of Endangered Species Legislation: Alfred Newton and the Wild Bird Preservation Acts, 1869–18941
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 1960s1
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: 97802267062901
Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones1
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
Ayo Wahlberg, Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China1
Developing Sex: From Recremental Semen to Developmental Endocrinology1
The Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach1
From Entomological Research to Culturing Tissues: Aron Moscona’s Investigative Pathway1
A Tale of Enduring Myths: Buffon’s Theory of Animal Degeneration and the Regeneration of Domesticated Animals in Mid-19th Century Brazil1
The Darwin Correspondence Project and Pedagogy1
Alexander Moritzi, a Swiss Pre-Darwinian Evolutionist: Insights into the Creationist-Transmutationist Debates of the 1830s and 1840s1
Beyond the Instinct Debate: Daniel Lehrman’s Contributions to Animal Behavior Studies1
Lords of the Fly Revisited1
The Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters1
A “Central Bureau of Feminine Algology:” Algae, Mutualism, and Gendered Ecological Perspectives, 1880–19101
Biased, Spasmodic, and Ridiculously Incomplete: Sequence Stratigraphy and the Emergence of a New Approach to Stratigraphic Complexity in Paleobiology, 1973–19951
Nonhuman Primates in Public Health: Between Biological Standardization, Conservation and Care1
A Conversation with Darwin on Man Revisited: 150 Years to The Descent of Man1
Connecting to the Living History of Radiation Exposure1
Towards a Sinophone Insect Humanities: A Review Essay1
Garland Allen’s Last Book Project1
Muscles or Movements? Representation in the Nascent Brain Sciences1
Reflections on Darwin Historiography1
Correction: Joel Hagen. Life out of Balance: Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021, ISBN 9780817320898, 360 pp1
Michel Morange, The Black Box of Biology. A History of the Molecular Revolution. Trans. by M. Cobb (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020), 528 pp., $45.00, £36.95, €40.50 Hardback, ISBN: 97801
The Elementary Organisms1
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