Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The First Generation of Organicists
2. Needham’s Revival of Mechanism
3. Socrates and the Principia Biologæ
4. The Tipping Point
5. Waddington and the Organizer
6. The Original Theoretical Biology Club
7. Large Plans versus the Ultimate Littleness of Things
8. As Many Opinions as There Are Men
9. “Off in all directions like an expanding universe”
10. Mechanism Reduced to Molecules
11. The Lysenko Morality Tale and the Epigenetic Landscape
12. Ernst Mayr, Neo-Darwinism, and Beanbag Genetics
13. History of Science Is Written by the Laureates
14. The 1960s Reincarnation of the Debate
15. The Conventional Wisdom of the Dominant Group, or COWDUNG
Conclusion: A Third Way after Waddington?
Epilogue: Is Modern Epigenetics Organic?
Notes
Bibliography
Index