In Progress
Richard Goldschmidt's Heresies: A Biography of a Bad Reputation (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, Under Contract).
Michael R. Dietrich, Roberta Millstein, and Robert A. Skipper, Jr., Survival of the Luckiest: Perspectives on Random Drift in Evolutionary Biology (In Preparation for submission).
2021
Michael R. Dietrich, "Richard Lewontin (1929-2021)," Nature. (2021).
Michael R. Dietrich, Oren Harman, and Ehud Lamm, "Richard Lewontin and the "Complications of Linkage"," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 88 (2021), 237-244.
Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds. Luis Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, Chris Young, editors. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021).Handbook of the Historiography of Biology, Michael R. Dietrich, Mark Borrello, and Oren Harman, Eds. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2021).
Michael R. Dietrich, Mark Borrello, and Oren Harman, “New Perspectives on the Historiography of Biology.”
Michael R. Dietrich, "The Historiography of Genetics"
2020
Michael R. Dietrich, Nathan Crowe, and Rachel Ankeny, "Why Study Sex by the Sea?: Marine Organisms and the Problems of Fertilization and Cell Cleavage," in Why Study Biology by the Sea?. Jane Maienschein, Karl Matlin, and Rachel Ankeny, Eds. (University of Chicago Press, 2020), 271-296.
“What is the nature of scientific controversies in the biological sciences?,” Philosophy of Science for Biologists. Kostas Komparakis and Tobias Uller, Editors. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 235-254.
Michael R. Dietrich, Rachel Ankeny, Nathan Crowe, Sara Green, and Sabina Leonelli, “How to Choose Your Research Organism,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences80 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101227
“The Johannes Holtfreter Papers at the Marine Biological Laboratory,” The Mendel Newsletter 22 (2020), 12-16.
Book Review, "Samanth Subramanian, A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane," American Scientist (Nov-Dec 2020), 378-379.
2019
Scott Dietrich and Michael R. Dietrich, "Ernest 'Chinese' Wilson's Re-imagined Legacy in Sichuan," Trans-Asian Photography Review 9 (2019). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0009.209
Roberta Millstein, Michael R. Dietrich, and Robert Skipper, Jr., "The History of Evolutionary Thought Since 1930," Oxford Bibliographies: Evolutionary Biology (2019).
2018
Sara Green, Michael R. Dietrich, Sabina Leonelli, and Rachel A. Ankeny,"'Extreme' Organisms and the Problem of Generalization: Interpreting the Krogh Principle," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2018) 40: 65.
"Sewall Wright," Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics, 3rd edition. Elsevier, 2018.
Michael R. Dietrich and Scott Dietrich, "Ernest Henry Wilson: Plant Collector, Explorer, Photographer," Pleasure Garden Magazine (Autumn 2018), 18-21.
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, "Perchance to Dream: Fostering Novelty in the Life Sciences," in Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Michael R. Dietrich and Laura L. Lovett, "From New Alchemy To Living Machines: John Todd's Dreams of Ecological Engineering," in Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
2017
Book Review, "Mario A. Fares, Ed., Natural Selection: Methods and Applications," The Quarterly Review of Biology 92 (2017), 468.
Book Review, "Nick Hopwood, Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud,"”" The English Historical Review 132 (2017), 246-247.
"Looking Toward the Next Fifty years at the Journal of the History of Biology ," Journal of the History of Biology 50 (2017), 689-690.
Book Review, "Nick Hopwood, Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud," English Historical Review 132 (2017), 426-427.
"The First Everett Mendelsohn Prize," Journal of the History of Biology 50 (2017), 3-4.
"The Journal of the History of Biology at 50," Journal of the History of Biology 50 (2017), 1-2.
2016
"Parsing Postgenomics," Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 59 ( 2016), 158-160.
Michael R. Dietrich and Edna Suarez-Diaz, "History of Molecular Evolution," in Richard Kliman, Ed., Encyclopedia of Evolution, Volume 3 (Oxford: Academic Press, 2016), 55-60.
"Inaugurating the Everett Mendelsohn Prize," Journal of the History of Biology 49 (2016), 1-2.
"Introduction: Revisiting Garland Allen's Views on the History of the Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century," Journal of the History of Biology 49 (2016), 1-2.
“Experimenting with Sex: Four Approaches to the Genetics of Sex Reversal before 1950,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 38 (2016), 23-41.
2015
2014
Michael R. Dietrich, Rachel Ankeny, Patrick Chen, "Publication Trends in Model Organism Research, " Genetics 198 (2014), 787-794. [PDF]
Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013). [LINK]2013
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, "Outsiders as Innovators in the Biological Sciences," in Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology, Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 1-23.
Michael R. Dietrich and Robert A. Skipper, Jr., "R. A. Fisher and the Foundations of Statistical Biology," in Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 147-160.
The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences. Nancy Anderson and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2012). [LINK]2012
Nancy Anderson and Michael R. Dietrich, "Visual Lessons and the Life Sciences ," The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences, Nancy Anderson and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2012), 1-13.
"Reinventing Richard Goldschmidt: Reputation, Memory, and Biography," Journal of the History of Biology 44(2011), 693-712.2011
Book Review, "Beyond The Double Helix: A Review of Robert Olby's Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets," The Mendel Newsletter 18 (2010), 22-24. [LINK]2010
Roberta L. Millstein, Robert A. Skipper, Jr., and Michael R. Dietrich, "(Mis)interpreting Mathematical Models of Drift: Drift as a Physical Process," Philosophy and Theory in Biology 1:e002 (2009), 1-13. [LINK]2009
Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich,Editors. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008).2008
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, "On Rebels, Icons, and the Value of Dissent" in Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 1-19.
"Striking the Hornet's Nest: Richard Goldschmidt's Rejection of the Particulate Gene" in Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich, Editors. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 119-136.
Michael R. Dietrich and Robert Skipper, "Manipulating Underdetermination in Scientific Controversy: The Case of the Molecular Clock," Perspectives on Science 15 (2007), 295-326.2007
Reprinted. "Representing the Object of Controversy: The Case of the Molecular Clock," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 29 (2007), 23-38.
"Three Perspectives on Neutrality and Drift in Molecular Evolution," Philosophy of Science 73 (2006), 666-677.[PDF]2006
"Two Men Who Invented Genetics: Essay Review of Oren Harman, The Man Who Invented Chromosomes: The Life of Cyril Darlington and Paul Berg and Maxine Singer, George Beadle: An Uncommon Farmer," Minerva 43 (2005), 429 - 433.2005
Book review, "Elof Axel Carlson, Mendel's Legacy: The Origins of Classical Genetics," Journal of the History of Biology 37 (2004) 590-591.2004
"Richard Goldschmidt: Hopeful Monsters and Other "Heresies"," Nature Reviews Genetics 4 (2003), 68-74.2003
"History of the Nature of the Gene," Genetics. Richard Robinson, Ed. (New York, NY: Macmillan Reference, 2002).2002
"Online History: The History of Recent Science and TechnologyProject," Recent Science Newsletter 3 (2001), 9.2001
"Of Moths and Men: Theo Lang and the Persistence of Richard Goldschmidt's Theory of the Genetics of Homosexuality, 1916-1960," History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 22 (2000), 219-247.2000
"The Richard Benedict Goldschmidt Papers," The Mendel Newsletter, New Series 7 (1998), pp. 13-15.1998
Book review, "Anne Harrington, Re-Enchanted Science," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 27 (1997): 359.1997
"On the Mutability of Genes and Geneticists: The "Americanization" of Richard Goldschmidt and Victor Jollos," Perspectives on Science 4 (1996), 321-345.1996
"Richard Goldschmidt's "Heresies" and the Evolutionary Synthesis," Journal of the History of Biology, 28 (1995), 431-461.1995
"The Origins of the Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution," Journal of the History of Biology, 27 (1994), 21-59.1994
"Underdetermination and the Limits of Interpretative Flexibility," Perspectives on Science, 1 (1993), 109-126.1993
"Macromutation," in Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, E. F. Keller and E. A. Lloyd, eds. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), pp. 194-201.1992