TY - JOUR
T1 - Method as a function of "disciplinary landscape"
T2 - C.D. Darlington and cytology, genetics and evolution, 1932-1950
AU - Harman, Oren Solomon
PY - 2006/3
Y1 - 2006/3
N2 - This article considers the reception of British cytogeneticist C.D. Darlington's controversial 1932 book, Recent Advances in Cytology. Darlington's cytogenetic work, and the manner in which he made it relevant to evolutionary biology, marked an abrupt shift in the status and role of cytology in the life sciences. By focusing on Darlington's scientific method - a stark departure from anti-theoretical, empirical reasoning to a theoretical and speculative approach based on deduction from genetic first principles - the article characterises the relationships defining the "disciplinary landscape" of the life sciences of the time, namely those between cytology, genetics, and evolutionary theory.
AB - This article considers the reception of British cytogeneticist C.D. Darlington's controversial 1932 book, Recent Advances in Cytology. Darlington's cytogenetic work, and the manner in which he made it relevant to evolutionary biology, marked an abrupt shift in the status and role of cytology in the life sciences. By focusing on Darlington's scientific method - a stark departure from anti-theoretical, empirical reasoning to a theoretical and speculative approach based on deduction from genetic first principles - the article characterises the relationships defining the "disciplinary landscape" of the life sciences of the time, namely those between cytology, genetics, and evolutionary theory.
KW - "disciplinary landscape"
KW - Chromosomes
KW - Cyril Darlington
KW - Empiricism
KW - J.B.S. Haldane
KW - John Innes Horticultural Institute
KW - Method
KW - Speculation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33644852092&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10739-004-2085-4
DO - 10.1007/s10739-004-2085-4
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C2 - 17212035
AN - SCOPUS:33644852092
SN - 0022-5010
VL - 39
SP - 165
EP - 197
JO - Journal of the History of Biology
JF - Journal of the History of Biology
IS - 1
ER -