Bio 301 -- History of Biological Thought

Spring 2007

J. Brown, Biology Department, Grinnell College

Course information

• Syllabus (pdf)
• Directions for Part I of the research paper (pdf)
• Weekly assignment sheets (pdf)

Useful links

Online readings

• On the parts of Animals -- Aristotle (trans. by Ogle) -- Book 1

• Novum Organum -- Francis Bacon (trans. by Montague)  ** Read preface and browse aphorisms.

• Zoological Philosophy -- Lamark (trans. by Johnston) -- Chapter 7, also look at the last sentence of Chapter 8
• On the origin of species -- Darwin -- Recapilation and Conclusion
  

• Experiments in Plant Hybridization -- Gregor Mendel (trans. by Druery and Bateson) -- also (the original) auf Deustch

• A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid (annotated)   -- Watson and Crick
  
• Genetical implications of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid -- Watson and Crick

• Aristotle,  Excerpts from De Generatione Animalium  Chapts 1-2 (pp.1-3) Chapts 17-23 optional (pp. 10-25) for those interested
• Haeckel, E.  Chapter 1 from The Evolution of Man (1879)
  
• Gilbert, SF.  Ernst Haeckel and the Biogenetic Law
  

• Bowler and Morus, Chapter 1
  

• Malebranche, The Search after Truth
  

• Leeuwenhoek excerpts
  

• Cole

• Small
• Zuk

• The microscope and the vernacular

• Epigenesis (2 articles, 1 document)

• Eugenics articles

• Last day of Kevles

• packet

• Tuskegee Syphilis