Publications
The many sides of science, Review of Deborah Coen, "Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, liberalism and Private Life"." SCIENCE 319 (2008): 412-413.
"Measuring the contributions of Chinese scholars to the research field of systems biology from 2005 to 2013." Scientometrics (2017): 1-17.
"Metaphors, misuse, and misconceptions - Response." SCIENCE 301 (2003): 1481-1482.
"Natural enemies - Metaphor or misconception?" Science 301 (2003): 52-53.
"Natural Enemies—Metaphor or Misconception?" Science 301 (2003).
"The Nature of Biological Concepts." European Journal for Semiotic Studies 9 (1997): 251-276.
"Of Locusts and Scientists, Review of "Heuschrecken by Stephan Kaegi/Rimini Protokoll"." SCIENCE 327 (2010): 525-526.
"Ontogeny, anatomy, and the problem of homology: Carl Gegenbaur and the American tradition of cell lineage studies." Theory in Biosciences (2003): 194-203.
"Organism and character decomposition: Steps towards an integrative theory of biology." Philosophy of Science (2000): S289-S300.
"The organism is dead. Long live the organism [Essay Review]." Perspectives on Science 8 (2000): 286-315.
"Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics." Isis 110, no. 3 (2019).
"A premodern Synthesis, Review of "The romantic conception of life science and philosophy in the age of Goethe"." SCIENCE (2003): 516-517.
"Quantitative Perspectives on Fifty Years of the Journal of the History of Biology." Journal of the History of Biology 50, no. 4 (2017).
"Reflections on the Role of Organismal and Cultural Variation in the History of the Biological Sciences." Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (2001): 1-29.
"Reflections on Wittgenstein and Biology." European Journal for Semiotic Studies 9 (1997): 377-386.
"The Regulatory Genome: Eric Davidson at 70." BioEssays 29 (2007): 937-939.
"Relatedness: Capturing Cohesion in Biological Systems." Biological Theory 1 (2006): 416-419.
"The relativity of biological function." Theory in Biosciences 134 (2015): 143-147.
"Review of "August Weismann: Ausgewählte Briefe und Dokumente (2 Bände)"." Journal of the History of Biology 35 (2002): 196-198.
"Review of "Biology integrating scientific fundamentals: Contributions to the history of interrelations between biology, chemistry, and physics from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries"." ISIS (2001): 761-762.
"Review of "Das Kaiser Wilhelm Institute für Biologie"." Journal of the History of Biology 36 (2003): 620-622.
"Review of "Die Entstehung der Synthetischen Theorie: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Evolutionsbiologie in Deutschland 1930-1950"." Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Sciences 49 (1999): 431-432.
"Review of "Die Geschichte der genetisch orientierten Hirnforschung von Cecile und Oskar Vogt in der Zeit von 1895 bis ca. 1927"." ISIS (1999): 394-395.
"Review of "Die zweite Darwinische Revolution: Geschichte des synthetischen Darwinismus in Deutschland 1924-1950 by Thomas Junker"." ISIS 97 (2006): 172.
"Review of "Epistemology of the concrete: Studies on the history of modern biology"." Journal of the History of Biology 39 (2006): 415-417.
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