Edited Excerpts From a Smithsonian Seminar Series

Abstract

In the second of three excerpts from seminars on collaborative knowledge generation in the arts, the sciences, and the humanities, a historian and biologist explore the special circumstances for science. Jeffrey K. Stine describes the historical trends of collaborative work in the sciences and how these changes affect the policy as well as the sociology of science. Elizabeth A. Zimmer outlines the concept of synergistic collaboration, how it works, and how it may be influenced subtly by gender bias.