Abstract Models are often used when teaching science. In this paper historical models and
students' ideas about genetics are compared. The historical development of the scientific …

I present an account of classical genetics to challenge theory-biased approaches in the
philosophy of science. Philosophers typically assume that scientific knowledge is ultimately …

The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of
both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research. Doogab Yi's The …

Conservative Reductionism sets out a new theory of the relationship between physics and
the special sciences within the framework of functionalism. It argues that it is wrong-headed …

This book is about the mapping cultures of twentieth-century genetics. From Molecular
Genetics to Genomics is the second volume of a collection of papers resulting from a …

A primary focus of the present chapter is the history and philosophy of science (HPS) and
the ways that issues connected to HPS can inform genetics instruction. The chapter begins …

Explanations in genetics have intriguing aspects to both biologists and philosophers, and
there is no account that satisfactorily elucidates such explanations. The aim of this article is …

I present a reconstruction of FHC Crick's two 1957 hypotheses' Sequence Hypothesis'
and'Central Dogma'in terms of a contemporary philosophical theory of causation. Analyzing …

Like the philosophy of science in general, the philosophy of biology has traditionally been
mostly concerned with theories. For a variety of reasons, the theory that has by far attracted …

Abstract TH Morgan, AH Sturtevant, HJ Muller and CB Bridges published their
comprehensive treatise The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity in 1915. By 1920 Morgan's`` …