Publications
Review of "Evolution. Geschichte und Zukunft des Lebens" In sehepunkte. Vol. 4., 2004.
Flies, Genes, and Brains: Oskar Vogt, Nicolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky and the Origin of the Concepts of Penetrance and Expressivity in Classical Genetics." In Medical Genetics. Conceptual Foundations and Classic Questions, edited by Rachel Ankeny and Lisa Parker, 63-85. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002.
"Lorenz/Die Rückseite des Spiegels In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 3. vollständig neu bearbeitete Auflage, Edited by H L. Arnold. Suttgart: Metzler Verlag, 2009.
Alfred Kuhn (1885-1968) and developmental evolution." Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 302B (2004): 103-110.
"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.
"Mathematik und Statistik." In Evolution. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, edited by P Sarasin and M Sommer, 180-185. Metzler Verlag, 2010.
"Ivan Schmalhausen." In Evolution: The first four Billion Year, edited by M Ruse and J Travis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
"The specter of the past: what the history of theoretical biology means today?" Biological Theory 2 (2007): 131-133.
"Unit of Selection In Norton Dictionary of Modern Thought, 3rd edition. W.W. Norton, 1998.
From Embryology to Evo Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.
Units and Levels of Selection in Developing Systems." In Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, edited by Brian Hall and Wendy Olson, 332-341. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
"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.
"The Nature of Biological Concepts." European Journal for Semiotic Studies 9 (1997): 251-276.
"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.
"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.
"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.
""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.
"An egg is an egg is an egg [Essay Review]." Cell 111 (2002): 460-461.
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