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A peek behind a veil of anonymity : an addendum Ghent University University of Antwerp
Interpreting the history of evolutionary biology through a Kuhnian prism : sense or nonsense? Ghent University
What’s wrong with the modern evolutionary synthesis? A critical reply to Welch (2017) Ghent University
Welch (Biol Philos 32(2):263–279, 2017) has recently proposed two possible explanations for why the field of evolutionary biology is plagued by a steady stream of claims that it needs urgent reform. It is either seriously deficient and incapable of incorporating ideas that are new, relevant and plausible or it is not seriously deficient at all but is prone to attracting discontent and to the championing of ideas that are not very relevant, ...
Mendel at the sesquicentennial of 'Versuche uber Pflanzen-Hybriden' (1865): the root of the biggest legend in the history of science Ghent University
In 1965, Mendel was still celebrated as the undisputed founder of genetics. In the ensuing 50 years, scholars questioned and undermined this traditional interpretation of his experiments with hybrid plants, without, however, managing to replace it: at the sesquicentennial of the presentation of his 'Versuche' (1865), the Moravian friar remains, to a vast majority, the heroic Father of genetics or at least some kind of geneticist. This ...
Life's dual nature: a way out of the impasse of the gene-centred 'versus' complex systems controversy on life Ghent University
Living cells and organisms are complex physical systems. Does their organization or complexity primarily rely on the intra-molecular crystalline structure of genetic nucleic acid sequences? Or is it, as critics of the U+2018gene-centredU+2019 perspective claim, predominantly a result of the inter- and supra-molecular U+2013 thus U+2018holisticU+2019 U+2013 network dynamics of genetic and various extra-genetic factors? The twentieth-century ...