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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

For a detailed categorization and bibliography of models
in biology, see W. R. Stahl, “The Role of Models in Theo-
retical Biology,” Progress in Theoretical Biology, 1 (1967),
165-218. See also M. W. Beckner, The Biological Way of
Thought
(Berkeley, 1968), Ch. III; R. B. Braithewaite, Sci-
entific Explanation
(Cambridge, 1953), Chs. III, V; J. Cairns,
G. S. Stent, and J. D. Watson, Phage and the Origins of
Molecular Biology
(Cold Spring Harbor, 1966); H. Freuden-
thal, ed., The Concept and the Role of the Model in Mathe-
matics and Natural and Social Sciences
(Dordrecht, 1961),
1-37, 163-94; R. MacArthur and R. Levins, “The Limiting
Similarity, Convergence and Divergence of Coexisting Spe-
cies,” The American Naturalist, 101 (1967), 377-85; A.
Rosenblueth and N. Wiener, “The Role of Models in Sci-
ence,” Philosophy of Science, 12 (1943), 317-20; J. D.
Watson, The Double Helix (New York, 1968); K. E. F. Watt,
Ecology and Resource Management (New York, 1968).

R. C. LEWONTIN

[See also Biological Homologies; Evolutionism; Genetic Continuity; Man-Machine; Recapitulation.]

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