Michael R. Dietrich
Publications
In Review
Michael R. Dietrich, Roberta Millstein, and Robert A. Skipper, Jr., Survival of the Luckiest: Perspectives
on Random Drift in Evolutionary Biology (In review).
Michael
R. Dietrich, and Mari Webel, “Colonial Climates and the Sources of Fever,” Gender, Science, and Colonialism: Environments (Routledge). (In review)
Michael
R. Dietrich, and Mari Webel, “Acclimatization and Colonization ,” Gender, Science, and Colonialism: Environments (Routledge). (In review)
Samuel Allen, Michael
R. Dietrich, and Mari Webel, “Fast Science and Health Communication: The Case of
Zika,” Health
Communication (In review)
Under Contract
Richard Goldschmidt's Heresies: A Biography of a Scientist's Reputation (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, Under Contract).
Philosophy, Feminism, and Science: Critical Perspectives on the Work of
Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Edited by Ryan Ketcham
and Michael R. Dietrich (University of Pittsburgh Press, Under contract).
Anomalies in Science. Edited by Carol Cleland and Michael R.
Dietrich (Springer, Under contract).
2024
Book Review, “Arnold Stoltzfus, Mutation, Randomness and Evolution� Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in
Biology (2024) 16:3.
Book Review, “Rethinking Regeneration: Essay Review of Jane Maienschein and Kate MacCord, What is Regeneration?,” Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science (2024)
2023
“Garland Allen III (1936-2023),” ISHPSSB Newsletter (Spring
2023).
2022
“Bibliometrics: Making Sense of Citations,” InfoEco Cookbook, Information Ecosystems
Project, University of Pittsburgh.
2021
"Richard Lewontin (1929-2021)," Nature 595 (2021), 489.
Michael R. Dietrich, Oren Harman, and Ehud Lamm,
"Richard Lewontin and the "Complications of
Linkage"," Studies
in History and Philosophy of Science. 88 (2021), 237-244.
Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds. Luis Campos, Michael
R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, Chris Young, editors. (Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 2021).
Luis Campos, Michael R.
Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Christian C. Young, "Engineering Life,
Envisioning Worlds."
Jane Maienschein,
Garland E. Allen, Michael Dietrich, Everett Mendelsohn, Marsha Richmond, and
Karen Rader, �In Memory of Paul Farber (1944-2021), Third Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology,� Journal
of the History of Biology 54
(2021), 549�550.
Handbook of the Historiography of Biology, Michael R. Dietrich, Mark Borrello,
and Oren Harman, Eds. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2021).
Michael R. Dietrich, Mark Borrello,
and Oren Harman, “New Perspectives on the Historiography of
Biology.”
"The Historiography of Genetics"
2020
Michael R. Dietrich, Nathan Crowe, and Rachel Ankeny, "Why Study Sex
by the Sea?: Marine Organisms and the Problems of
Fertilization and Cell Cleavage," in Why
Study Biology by the Sea?. Jane Maienschein,
Karl Matlin, and Rachel Ankeny, Eds. (University of Chicago Press, 2020),
271-296.
“What is the nature of scientific controversies in the biological sciences?,” Philosophy
of Science for Biologists. Kostas Komparakis
and Tobias Uller, Editors. (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2020), 235-254.
Michael R. Dietrich, Rachel Ankeny, Nathan Crowe, Sara Green, and Sabina Leonelli, “How to Choose Your Research
Organism,” Studies in
History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences80
(2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101227
“The Johannes Holtfreter Papers at the
Marine Biological Laboratory,” The
Mendel Newsletter 22 (2020), 12-16.
Book Review, "Samanth Subramanian, A Dominant Character: The Radical
Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane," American Scientist
(Nov-Dec 2020), 378-379.
2019
Scott Dietrich and Michael R. Dietrich, "Ernest 'Chinese' Wilson's
Re-imagined Legacy in Sichuan," Trans-Asian
Photography Review 9 (2019). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0009.209
Roberta Millstein, Michael R. Dietrich, and Robert Skipper, Jr., "The History of Evolutionary Thought Since
1930," Oxford
Bibliographies: Evolutionary Biology (2019).
2018
Sara Green, Michael R. Dietrich, Sabina Leonelli,
and Rachel A. Ankeny,"'Extreme' Organisms and
the Problem of Generalization: Interpreting the Krogh Principle," History and Philosophy of the Life
Sciences (2018) 40: 65.
"Sewall Wright," Brenner's
Encyclopedia of Genetics, 3rd edition. Elsevier, 2018.
Michael R. Dietrich and Scott Dietrich, "Ernest Henry Wilson: Plant
Collector, Explorer, Photographer," Pleasure
Garden Magazine (Autumn 2018), 18-21.
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life
Sciences (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, "Perchance to Dream: Fostering Novelty in the Life Sciences," in Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Michael R. Dietrich and Laura L. Lovett, "From New Alchemy To Living Machines: John Todd's Dreams of Ecological Engineering," in Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
2017
Book Review, "Mario A. Fares, Ed., Natural
Selection: Methods and Applications," The Quarterly Review of Biology
92 (2017), 468.
Book Review, "Nick Hopwood, Haeckel's
Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud,"�" The English Historical Review
132 (2017), 246-247.
"Looking Toward the Next Fifty years at the Journal of the History of Biology ,"
Journal of the History of
Biology 50 (2017), 689-690.
Book Review, "Nick Hopwood, Haeckel's
Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud," English Historical Review
132 (2017), 426-427.
"The First Everett Mendelsohn Prize," Journal of the History of Biology 50 (2017),
3-4.
"The Journal of the
History of Biology at 50," Journal
of the History of Biology 50 (2017), 1-2.
2016
"Parsing Postgenomics," Studies in the History and Philosophy
of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 59 (
2016), 158-160.
Michael R. Dietrich and Edna Suarez-Diaz, "History of Molecular
Evolution," in Richard Kliman, Ed., Encyclopedia of Evolution, Volume
3 (Oxford: Academic Press, 2016), 55-60.
"Inaugurating the Everett Mendelsohn Prize," Journal of the History of Biology
49 (2016), 1-2.
"Introduction: Revisiting Garland Allen's Views on the History of the
Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century," Journal of the History of Biology 49 (2016),
1-2.
“Experimenting with Sex: Four Approaches to the Genetics of Sex
Reversal before 1950,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
38 (2016), 23-41.
2015
2014
Michael R. Dietrich, Rachel Ankeny, Patrick Chen, "Publication Trends
in Model Organism Research, " Genetics
198 (2014), 787-794. [PDF]
2013
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, "Outsiders as Innovators in the Biological Sciences," in Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology, Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 1-23.
Michael R. Dietrich and Robert A. Skipper, Jr., "R. A. Fisher and the Foundations of Statistical Biology," in Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 147-160.
2012
Nancy Anderson and Michael R. Dietrich, "Visual Lessons and the Life Sciences ," The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences, Nancy Anderson and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2012), 1-13.
Robert A. Skipper, Jr. and
Michael R. Dietrich, "Sewall Wright's Adaptive Landscape: Philosophical
Reflections on Heuristic Value," in The
Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology, Erik Svensson & Ryan Calsbeek,
Editors. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 3-15. [LINK]
Michael R. Dietrich and Robert A. Skipper, Jr.,
"A Shifting Terrain: A Brief History of the Adaptive Landscape," in The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary
Biology, Erik Svensson & Ryan Calsbeek, Editors. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012),
16-25. [LINK]
"Editorial Introdcution," Journal of the History of Biology
45 (2012), 1.
Book Review, "Manfred Laubichler and Gerd B.
Mueller, Editors, Modeling
Biology: Structures, Behaviors, Evolution," History and Philosophy of the Life
Sciences 34 (2012), 503-504.
2011
"Reinventing
Richard Goldschmidt: Reputation, Memory, and Biography," Journal of the History of Biology
44(2011), 693-712.
2010
Book
Review, "Beyond The Double Helix: A Review of
Robert Olby's Francis
Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets," The Mendel Newsletter 18 (2010), 22-24.
[LINK]
Book Review, "Philip Thurtle, The Emergence of Genetic Rationality,"
Journal of the History of
Biology 43 (2010), 621-622.
2009
Roberta L. Millstein, Robert A. Skipper, Jr., and Michael R. Dietrich,
"(Mis)interpreting Mathematical Models of Drift: Drift as a Physical
Process," Philosophy
and Theory in Biology 1:e002 (2009), 1-13.
[LINK]
"Microevolution and Macroevolution Are Governed by the Same
Processes" in Contemporary
Debates in Philosophy of Biology. Francisco J. Ayala and Robert
Arp, Editors. (Blackwell Publishing, 2009), 169-179.
Kevin J. Peterson, Michael R. Dietrich, and Mark A. McPeek,
"miRNAs and Metazoan Macroevolution: Insights into Canalization,
Complexity, and the Cambrian Explosion," Bioessays 31
(2009), 736-747.
Gregory K. Davis, Michael R. Dietrich, and David Jacobs, "Homeotic Mutants
and the Assimilation of Developmental Genetics into the Evolutionary
Synthesis," in Joe Cain and Michael Ruse, Eds., Descended from Darwin: Insights into
American Evolutionary Studies, 1900-1970 (Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,
volume 99, part 1, 2009), pp. 133-154.
"The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change," Evolution: The First Four Billion
Years. Michael Ruse and Joe Travis, Eds., (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2009), pp. 602-603.
Book Review, "The Rise of the Classical Gene: Review of James Schwartz' In Pursuit of the Gene,"
Evolution and Development
11 (2009), 326-327.
Book Review, "Frederick Grinnell, Everyday
Practice of Science: Where Intuition and passion Meet Objectivity and Logic,"
The Quarterly Review of
Biology 84 (2009), 278.
2008
Rebels,
Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich,Editors. (New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 2008).
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, "On Rebels, Icons, and the Value of Dissent" in Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 1-19.
"Striking the Hornet's Nest: Richard Goldschmidt's Rejection of the Particulate Gene" in Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 119-136.
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, "Dynamic Dissent: Iconoclasts, both
visionary and misguided, have advanced modern biology," The Chronicle Review 54
(July 11, 2008), B7-8.
Michael R. Dietrich and Roberta Millstein, "The Role of Causal Processes
in the Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories," Philosophy of Science 75 (2008), 548-559.
[PDF]
"Genetics," in Oxford
Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Peter Stearns, Ed. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 2008).
"Molecular Evolution," in A
Companion to Philosophy of Biology, Sohotra
Sarkar and Anya Plutynski, Eds. (Blackwell, 2008).
Book Review, "Francisco Ayala, Darwin's
Gift to Science and Religion," National Center for Science Education Newsletter
28 (2008), 33-34.
2007
Michael
R. Dietrich and Robert Skipper, "Manipulating Underdetermination in
Scientific Controversy: The Case of the Molecular Clock," Perspectives on Science 15
(2007), 295-326.
Michael R. Dietrich and Brandi H. Tambasco,
"Beyond the Boss and the Boys: Women in Drosophila Genetics in the United
States, 19341970," Journal
of the History of Biology (2007), 509-528.
"Representando el objeto de la controversia. El caso del reloj molecular
(Representing the Object of Controversy: The Case of the Molecular Clock),"
Variedad Sin Limites:
Las Representaciones en la Ciencia, Edna Suarez, Ed. (Mexico City:
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) y
Editorial Limusa, S . A. de
C. V., 2007), 351-366.
Reprinted. "Representing the Object of Controversy: The Case of the Molecular Clock," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 29 (2007), 23-38.
"A Just-So Story for Symbolic Thought?," in Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,
Ed., Moral Psychology,
Volume 1: The Evolution of Moralty
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), 299-301.
"Johannes Holtfreter," The New Dictionary of Scientific
Biography (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007).
Michael R. Dietrich and James F. Crow, "Motoo
Kimura," The New
Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York, NY: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 2007).
2006
"Three
Perspectives on Neutrality and Drift in Molecular Evolution," Philosophy of Science 73
(2006), 666-677.[PDF]
Sandra Mitchell and Michael R. Dietrich, "Integration without Unification:
An Argument for Pluralism in the Biological Sciences," The American Naturalist
168 (2006), S73-S79.[PDF]
"From Mendel to Molecules: A Brief History of Evolutionary Genetics,"in Evolutionary
Genetics: Concepts and Case Studies. Charles W. Fox and Jason B.
Wolf, Eds. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006), 3-13.[PDF]
Book Review, "William Bechtel, Discovering
Cell Mechanisms: The Creation of Modern Cell Biology," Quarterly Review of Biology
81 (2006), 392.
Book Review, "Susan Lindee, Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine,"
New England Journal of
Medicine 354 (2006) 1965.[PDF]
"The History of Genetics Online," The
Mendel Newsletter 15 (2006), 27-30.
Book Review, "Soraya de Chadarevian and Nick
Hopwood, Eds., Models: The
Third Dimension of Science," Journal of the History of Biology 39 (2006)
224-6.
2005
"Two
Men Who Invented Genetics: Essay Review of Oren Harman, The Man Who Invented Chromosomes: The
Life of Cyril Darlington and Paul Berg and Maxine Singer, George Beadle: An Uncommon Farmer,"
Minerva 43
(2005), 429 - 433.
"Foundations of Genetics at the Electronic Scholarly Publishing
Project," The Mendel
Newsletter 13 (2005), 9.
Book review, "David Rothenberg and Wandee J.
Pryor, Eds., Writing the
Future: Progress and Evolution," Quarterly Review of Biology 80 (2005), 119.
2004
Book
review, "Elof Axel Carlson, Mendel's Legacy: The Origins of
Classical Genetics," Journal
of the History of Biology 37 (2004) 590-591.
Book review, "Leah Ceccarelli, Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The
Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson," Isis 95 (2004) 470.
Book review, "Jody Hey, Genes,
Categories, and Species: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Causes of the Species
Problem," Philosophy
of Science 71 (2004) 619-620.
Book review, "Jan Sapp, Genesis:
The Evolution of Biology," Quarterly
Review of Biology 79 (2004): 305.
Book review, "The Postgenomic Shipwright: Antoine Danchin's
The Delphic Boat: What
Genomes Tell Us," Nature
Genetics, 36 (2004), 318.
Book review, "Lewis I. Held, Jr., Imaginal
Discs: The Genetic and Cellular Logic of Pattern Formation," The Mendel Newsletter 13
(2004), 19.
2003
"Richard
Goldschmidt: Hopeful Monsters and Other "Heresies"," Nature Reviews Genetics 4
(2003), 68-74.
2002
"History
of the Nature of the Gene," Genetics.
Richard Robinson, Ed. (New York, NY: Macmillan Reference, 2002).
Marsha L. Richmond and Michael R. Dietrich, "Richard Goldschmidt and the
Crossing-Over Controversy, " Genetics
161 (2002), 477-482.
Book review, "Embryology in Wax: Nick Hopwood's Embryos in Wax," Trends in Genetics 18
(2002) 658.
2001
"Online
History: The History of Recent Science and TechnologyProject,"
Recent Science Newsletter
3 (2001), 9.
Michael R. Dietrich, C. Robertson McClung, and Mark McPeek,
"Darwinian Evolution Across the Disciplines," History and Philosophy of the Life
Sciences 23 (2001), 337-338.
Book review, "Jennifer Terry, An American Obsession: Science, Medicine and
Homosexuality in Modern Society," History
and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 22 (2001), 224-225.
2000
"Of
Moths and Men: Theo Lang and the Persistence of Richard Goldschmidt's Theory of
the Genetics of Homosexuality, 1916-1960," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
22 (2000), 219-247.
"The Problem of the Gene," Comptes Rendus de l'Acad�mie des Sciences de Paris 323 (2000),
1139-1146
"From Hopeful Monsters to Homeotic Effects: Richard Goldschmidt's
Integration of Development, Evolution, and Genetics," American Zoologist 40
(2000), 28-37.
"From Gene to Genetic Hierarchy: Richard Goldschmidt and the Problem of
the Gene," The Concept
of the Gene in Development and Evolution: Historical and Epistemological
Perspectives. Peter Beurton, Raphael
Falk, and Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, eds. (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 91-114.
Book review, "R. J. Russell, W. R. Stoeger,
S.J., and F. J. Ayala (eds.), Evolutionary and Molecular Biology: Scientific
Perspectives on Divine Action," History
and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 22 (2000), 126-127.
1998
"The
Richard Benedict Goldschmidt Papers," The
Mendel Newsletter, New Series 7 (1998), pp. 13-15.
"Molecular Biology," Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Volume 6. Edward Craig, Ed. (London:
Routledge, 1998), pp. 458-461.
"Paradox and Persuasion: Negotiating the Place of Molecular Evolution
Within Evolutionary Biology," Journal
of the History of Biology 31 (1998), 85-111.
Book review, "V. B. Smocovitis, Unifying
Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology," Journal of the History of Biology
31 (1998): 289-291.
Book review, "V. Orel, Gregor Mendel: The First Geneticist," Isis 89 (1998): 143-144.
1997
Book
review, "Anne Harrington, Re-Enchanted Science," Historical Studies in the Physical and
Biological Sciences 27 (1997): 359.
1996
"On
the Mutability of Genes and Geneticists: The "Americanization" of
Richard Goldschmidt and Victor Jollos," Perspectives on Science 4
(1996), 321-345.
"Monte Carlo Experiments and the Defense of Diffusion Models in Molecular
Population Genetics," Biology
and Philosopy 11 (1996), 339-356.
1995
"Richard
Goldschmidt's "Heresies" and the Evolutionary Synthesis," Journal of the History of Biology,
28 (1995), 431-461.
1994
"The
Origins of the Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution," Journal of the History of Biology,
27 (1994), 21-59.
Book review, "Elliot Sober, Philosophy of Biology," Teaching Philosophy 17
(1994): 375-377.
1993
"Underdetermination
and the Limits of Interpretative Flexibility," Perspectives on Science, 1 (1993), 109-126.
1992
"Macromutation,"
in Keywords in Evolutionary
Biology, E. F. Keller and E. A. Lloyd, eds. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1992), pp. 194-201.
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