Publications
The specter of the past: what the history of theoretical biology means today?" Biological Theory 2 (2007): 131-133.
"The Nature of Biological Concepts." European Journal for Semiotic Studies 9 (1997): 251-276.
"Doppelkompetenzen gefragt In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Frankfurt/Main, 2008.
A semiotic perspective on biological objects and biological functions." SEMIOTICA (1999): 415-431.
"A Constrained View of Evo-Devo's Roots, Review of "The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought"." SCIENCE 309 (2005): 1020-1021.
"Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics." Isis 110, no. 3 (2019).
"Review of "From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design"." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46 (2003): 148-153.
"D’Arcy Thompson—Biogramm In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 3. vollständig neu bearbeitete Auflage, Edited by H L. Arnold. Suttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2009.
Evolution and Society." In The First Four Billion Years, edited by Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
""Seeing is Believing, but What do we See? Review of "The Birth of the Cell" by Henry Harris." SCIENCE 284 (1999): 58.
"Form and Function in Evo Devo: A Conceptual and Historical Analysis." In Form and Function in Developmental Evolution, edited by M D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein, 10-46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
"Extended evolution: A conceptual framework for integrating regulatory networks and niche construction." Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 324 (2015): 565-577.
"Dobzhansky/Genetics and the Origin of Species In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 3. vollständig neu bearbeitete Auflage, Edited by H L. Arnold. Suttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2009.
How molecular is molecular developmental biology? A reply to Alex Rosenberg's reductionism redux: Computing the embryo." Biology & Philosophy (2001): 53-68.
"Editorial: Formalizing Biology." Biological Theory 3 (2008): 1-2.
"An egg is an egg is an egg [Essay Review]." Cell 111 (2002): 460-461.
"Review of "Michael Frayn's Copenhagen in Debate"." ISIS 98 (2007): 401-402.
"Oskar and Cecile Vogt: From the Neo-Cortex to Bumble Bees: An Episode in the History of the Biological Character Concept." In The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology, edited by G P. Wagner, 37-56. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000.
"Review of "The man who invented the chromosome: A lfie of Cyril Darlington"." Journal of the History of medicine and Allied Sciences 60 (2005): 520-522.
"Ontogeny, Anatomy, and the Problem of Homology: Carl Gegenbaur and the American Tradition of Cell Lineage Studies." In Evolutionary Morphology: From Carl Gegenbaur to the Present, edited by Uwe Hoß feld, Lenart Olsson, Olaf Breidbach and George S. Levit, 132-142. St. Petersburg: Fineday Press, 2004.
"Form and Function in Developmental Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Robert Lepage's Vision." In Jahrbuch 2009/10, 120-122. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2010.
"The strategy concept and John Maynard Smith's influence on theoretical biology." Biology & Philosophy 20 (2005): 1041-1050.
"Review of "Membranes: Metaphors of invasion in nineteenth-century literature, science, and politics"." Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2001): 287-288.
"Modellorganismen." In Evolution. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, edited by P Sarasin and M Sommer, 189-195. Metzler Verlag, 2010.
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