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    Sex, Death, and Evolution in Proto- and Metazoa, 1876–1913
    Journal of the History of Biology 33 (2). 2000.
    In the period 1875-1920, a debate about the generality and applicability of evolutionary theory to all organisms was motivated by work on unicellular ciliates like Paramecium because of their peculiar nuclear dualism and life cycles. The French cytologist Emile Maupas and the German zoologist August Weismann argued in the 1880s about the evolutionary origins and functions of sex (which in the ciliates is not linked to reproduction), and death (which appeared to be the inevitable fate of lineages…Read more
  • Review: Botanists Sow, Historians Reap (review)
    Journal of the History of Biology 34 (3). 2001.
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    Essay review: Botanists Sow, Historians Reap (review)
    Journal of the History of Biology 34 (3): 581-591. 2001.
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    Cultivating Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century English Gardens
    Science in Context 13 (2): 155-181. 2000.
    The ArgumentThe popularity of botany and natural history in England combined with the demographic changes of the first half of the nineteenth century to bring about a new aesthetics of gardening, fusing horticultural practice with a connoisseurship of botanical science. Horticultural societies brought theoretical botany into the practice of gardening. Botanical and horticultural periodicals disseminated both science and prescriptions for practice, yoking them to a progressive social agenda, incl…Read more