Publications
Learning from Errors, Review of Mark Blumberg, "Freaks of Nature"." SCIENCE 324 (2009): 181-182.
"The Life of David Lack: Father of Evolutionary Ecology by Ted R. Anderson." The Quarterly Review of Biology 89 (2014).
"Locating decision-making circuits in a heterogeneous neural network." Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics 4 (2018).
"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.
"Mesenchyme." Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2012).
"Metaphors, misuse, and misconceptions - Response." SCIENCE 301 (2003): 1481-1482.
"The Monstering of Tamarisk: How scientists made a plant into a problem." Journal of the History of Biology 42 (2009).
"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.
"Network Analysis for the Digital Humanities: Principles, Problems, Extensions." Isis 110, no. 3 (2019).
"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.
" "Pluralism in Evolutionary Controversies: Styles and Averaging Strategies in Hierarchical Selection Theories." Biology and Philosophy 28, no. 6 (2013).
"A premodern Synthesis, Review of "The romantic conception of life science and philosophy in the age of Goethe"." SCIENCE (2003): 516-517.
"Quantifying collectivity." Current Opinion in Neurobiology 37 (2016): 106-113.
"Quantifying the impact of network structure on speed and accuracy in collective decision-making." (2019).
"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.
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