History 138:  Science in the U.S.

Class 22 (10/14) 
The new biology
(Class 21 was the midterm.)
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Outline Biology:  structures and developments
  Traditions of work
  Their transformation
  An experimental field with a scientific method

Institutional homes 
  Biology research stations 
  Land-grant schools 
  Research universities (and one other place)

American biology
  Jacques Loeb:  life science as engineering
  T.H. Morgan and chromosomal genetics
Names and Terms
Primary Secondary
taxonomy/systematics
morphology
physiology
Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory
Jacques Loeb (1859-1924)
artificial parthenogenesis
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945)
Drosophila melanogaster
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
chromosome		 Hopkins Marine Station (Pacific Grove)
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
Johns Hopkins University
Bryn Mawr
Assignment Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), introduction - ch. 3.

  [We will start reading Larson in advance of the corresponding lectures.]
  How did Christian naturalists accommodate Darwinism around 1900? What made this possible, theologically and scientifically?
  What does Larson mean by the "warfare model of science and religion" (p. 22)?
  What was at stake in the controversy between theological modernists and fundamentalists?
  What was Bryan's political argument against teaching evolution in the public schools?
  What was the content of the Tennessee statute?
  How did the American Civil Liberties Union get involved? Why? 
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