Historical Resources

For more information on the history of topics that we touch on throughout the Embryo Journal Club, check out some of the following articles and books:

Maienschein, Jane. "Cell Lineage, Ancestral Reminiscence, and the Biogenetic Law." Journal of the History of Biology (1978) 11: 129-158.

Maienschein, Jane. "Shifting Assumptions in American Biology. Embryology, 1890-1910." Journal of the History of Biology (1981) 14: 89-113.

Maienschein, Jane. "Agassiz, Hyatt, Whitman, and the Birth of the MBL." Biological Bulletin (1985) 168 suppl: 26-34.

Maienschein, Jane. 1991. Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880-1915. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Oppenheimer, Jane, and Viktor Hamburger. "The Non-Specificity of the Germ-Layers." The Quarterly Review of Biology (1976) 51: 96-124.

Richards, Robert. 2008. The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle Over Evolutionary Thought. University of Chicago Press.

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