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I would be happy to mail you a hard copy of any of the articles. Please send requests to marypickardwinsor@gmail.com<\/p>\n

Books<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Shape<\/a><\/p>\n

1991.\u00a0 Reading the Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum<\/a><\/i>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n

\"Starfish<\/a><\/p>\n

1976. Starfish, Jellyfish, and the Order of Life: Issues in Nineteenth Century Science.\u00a0<\/i>New Haven: Yale University Press.\u00a0Out of print, but used copies may be found through\u00a0bookfinder.com<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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Articles<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2023 “Darwin’s Dark Matter: Utter Extinction,”\u00a0Annals of Science<\/i>, vol 80 open access\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

2021. “I would sooner die than give up\u201d: Huxley and Darwin\u2019s deep disagreement” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences<\/i> 43:\u00a0No. 53.<\/a><\/p>\n

2015. “Considering affinity: an ethereal conversation (part one of three)\u201d Endeavour 39 (1): 69-79.<\/p>\n

2015. “Considering affinity: an ethereal conversation (part two of three)”\u00a0Endeavour 39 (2): 116-126.<\/p>\n

2015. “Considering affinity: an ethereal conversation (part three of three)”\u00a0Endeavour 39 (3-4): 179-187.<\/p>\n

2013. \u201cDarwin and taxonomy,\u201d in\u00a0 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought<\/i>, ed. Michael Ruse. pp. 72-79. Cambridge University Press. This volume is also available as an eBook – if your local library has a hard copy, you may be able to electronically access this paper as well.<\/p>\n

2009. \u201cMuseums,\u201d in The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 6: The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences<\/i>, ed. Peter J. Bowler and John V. Pickstone, pp. 60-75. Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n

2009. \u201cTaxonomy was the foundation of Darwin’s evolution,\u201d Taxon <\/i>58(1): 43-49<\/p>\n

2007.\u00a0 (co-author Jennifer Coggon) \u201cThe mystery of Richard Owen’s winged bull-slayer,\u201d in Richard Owen, On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse <\/i>[1849], reprint ed. Ron Amundson, University of Chicago Press, pp. [xciii]-cii.<\/p>\n

2006a. \u201cThe creation of the essentialism story,\u201d History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences<\/i>, 28: 149-174.<\/p>\n

2006b. \u201cLinnaeus\u2019s biology was not essentialist,\u201d Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden<\/i> 93(1): 2-7.<\/p>\n

2005. \u201cErnst Mayr, 1904-2005,\u201d Isis<\/i> 96: 415-418.<\/p>\n

2004. \u201cSetting up milestones: Sneath on Adanson and Mayr on Darwin,\u201d in Milestones in Systematics<\/i>, ed. David M. Williams and Peter L. Forey. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press (Systematics Association special volume 67), pp. 1-17.<\/p>\n

2003. \u201cNon-essentialist methods in pre-Darwinian taxonomy,\u201d Biology and Philosophy<\/i> 18: 387-400.<\/p>\n

2002.\u00a0 \u201cBiology\u201d [overview essay on history of biology], in History of Modern Science and Mathematics<\/i>, ed. Brian S. Baigrie, 4 vols. New York: Scribner\u2019s [Thomson Gale], vol. 1, pp. 51-81.<\/p>\n

2001a. \u201cCain on Linnaeus: the scientist-historian as unanalysed entity,\u201d Studies in History and Philosophy of Biology and Biomedical Sciences<\/i> 32: 239-254.<\/p>\n

2001b. \u201cThe practitioner of science: everyone her own historian,\u201d Journal of the History of Biology <\/i>34: 229-245.<\/p>\n

2000a. \u201cSpecies, demes, and the omega taxonomy: Gilmour and The New Systematics<\/i>,\u201d Biology and Philosophy<\/i> 15: 349-388.<\/p>\n

2000b.\u00a0 \u201cAgassiz\u2019s notions of a museum: the vision and the myth,\u201d in Cultures and Institutions of Natural History<\/i>, ed. Michael T. Ghiselin and Alan E. Leviton. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences (Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, no. 25), pp. 249-271.<\/p>\n

1999. (with Leonard G. Wilson) \u201cThe Joint Atlantic Seminar in History of Biology,\u201d Isis<\/i>, 90: S219-225.<\/p>\n

1995a. “The English debate on taxonomy and phylogeny, 1937-1940,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences<\/i>, 17: 227-252.<\/p>\n

1995b. (co-author Gordon McOuat) “J. B. S. Haldane’s Darwinism in its religious context,” British Journal for the History of Science<\/i> 28: 227-231.<\/p>\n

1994. “The lessons of history” in Models in Phylogeny Reconstruction<\/i>, ed. R. W. Scotland, D. J. Siebert, and D. M. Williams, (Systematics Association Special Volume No. 52), Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 1-9.<\/p>\n

1987. “Robert Wallace: predecessor of Malthus and pioneering actuary,” Acta Historica Scientarum Naturalium et Medicinalium<\/i> 39: 215-224.
\nWallace was an Edinburgh minister whose calculations of population increase were influenced by his experience setting up the first life insurance program; his debate with David Hume directly influenced Malthus.<\/p>\n

1985. “The impact of Darwinism on the Linnaean enterprise, with special reference to T. H. Huxley,” in Contemporary Perspectives on Carl von Linn\u00e9<\/i>, ed. J. M. Weinstock, University Press of America,\u00a0 pp. 55-84.<\/p>\n

1979. “Louis Agassiz and the species question,” Studies in History of Biology<\/i> 4: 89-117.<\/p>\n

1976. “The development of Linnaean insect classification,” Taxon<\/i> 25: 57-67.<\/p>\n

1972. “A historical consideration of the siphonophores,” Proceedings of the Royal\u00a0 Society of Edinburgh<\/i> sec. B, 73: 315-323.<\/p>\n

1969. “Barnacle larvae in the nineteenth century: a case study in taxonomic theory,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences<\/i> 24: 194-209.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would be happy to mail you a hard copy of any of the articles. Please send requests to marypickardwinsor@gmail.com Books 1991.\u00a0 Reading the Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1976. Starfish, Jellyfish, and the Order of Life: Issues in Nineteenth Century Science.\u00a0New Haven: Yale University Press.\u00a0Out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/front-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marypwinsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marypwinsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marypwinsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marypwinsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marypwinsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.marypwinsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"http:\/\/www.marypwinsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marypwinsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}