This introduction offers a synoptic overview of some of Evelyn Fox Keller's influential works on the role and nature of metaphor in science, followed by a short précis of each of the contributed papers.
BraunErez, and DavidL.. 2011. “The Role of Cellular Plasticity in the Evolution of Regulatory Novelty. ” In Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology , edited by GissisS. B. and JablonkaE., 181–192. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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FrancisR. C.2011. Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance . New York: Norton.
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GibbonS., and NovasC.. 2007. Biosocialities, Genetics, and the Social Sciences: Making Biologies and Identities . New York: Routledge.
HallgrimssonB., and HallB. K., eds. 2011. Epigenetics: Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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HesseM.1988. “The Cognitive Claims of Metaphor. ” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 2 (1): 1–16.
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HunemanP., and WalshD.. 2017. Challenging the Modern Synthesis: Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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JablonkaE., and LambM. J.. 2005. Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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JablonkaE., and LambM. J.. 2007. “The Expanded Evolutionary Synthesis – A Response to Godfrey-Smith, Haig, and West-Eberhard. ” Biology and Philosophy 22: 453–472. doi: 10.1007/s10539-007-9064-z
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KauffmanS. A.2006. “On Emergence, Agency and Organization. ” Biology and Philosophy 21: 501–521. doi: 10.1007/s10539-005-9003-9
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KellerE. F.1983. A Feeling for the Organism . New York: Freeman.
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KellerE. F.1986. Reflections on Gender and Science . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
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KellerE. F.1992. Secrets of Life/Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender, and Science . New York: Routledge.
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KellerE. F.1995. Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology . New York: Columbia University Press.
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KellerE. F.2000. The Century of the Gene . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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KellerE. F.2002. Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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KellerE. F.2008. “Organisms, Machines, and Thunderstorms: A History of Self-Organization, Part One. ” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 38 (1). doi: 10.1525/hsns.2008.38.1.45.
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KellerE. F.2009. “Self-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the origin of Life. ” In Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science , Vol. 266. Dordrecht: Springer.
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KellerEvelyn Fox.2015. “Cognitive Functions of Metaphor in the Natural Sciences.” this volume .
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KellerEvelyn Fox, and SegelLee. 1970. “Initiation of Slime Mold Aggregation Viewed as an Instability. ” Journal of Theoretical Biology 26: 399–415. doi: 10.1016/0022-5193(70)90092-5
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LewontinR. C.2000. The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism and Environment . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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MattickJ. S.2010. “RNA as the Substrate for Epigenome-Environment Interactions: RNA Guidance of Epigenetic Processes and the Expansion of RNA Editing in Animals Underpins Development, Phenotypic Plasticity, Learning, and Cognition. ” Bioessays 32: 548–552. doi: 10.1002/bies.201000028
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MorganT. H., SturtevantA. H., MullerH. J., and BridgesC. B.. 1915. The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity . New York: Henry Holt. Facsimile Reprinted with Introduction by Garland E. Allen. London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1972.
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MüllerG. B.2010. “Epigenetic Innovation. ” In Evolution: The Extended Synthesis , edited by PigliucciMassimo and MüllerGerd B., 307–332. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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NelsonA.2016. The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome . Boston, MA: Beacon.
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PálssonG.2007. Anthropology and the New Genetics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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PollitzerElizabeth.2017. “Gender Perspectives as Insights into Quality of Science Knowledge, Organizations, and Practices. ” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 44 (2): 111–113. doi: 10.1080/03080188.2019.1603857
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SultanS. E.2015. Organism and Environment: Ecological Development, Niche Construction and Adaptation . London: Oxford University Press.
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TallBearK.2013. Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science . Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
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TaussigK. S.2009. Ordinary Genomes: Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities . Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
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VicedoM.2013. The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
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VicedoM.2017. “The Strange Situation of the Ethological Theory of Attachment: A Historical Perspective. ” In The Cultural Nature of Attachment , edited by KellerH. and BardK. A., 13–52. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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VicedoM.2021. Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother . Boston, MA: Beacon.
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WailooK., NelsonA., and LeeC.. 2012. Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
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WalshD. M.2015. Organisms, Agency, and Evolution . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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West-EberhardM. J.2003. Developmental Plasticity and Evolution . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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YoungR.1971. “Darwin's Metaphor: Does Nature Select?
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