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Michael R. Dietrich

Professor of Biological Sciences
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Departments and Programs

  • Biological Sciences
  • Women's and Gender Studies

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Contact Information

Email: michael.dietrich@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603 646-1389
Office: 6044 Gilman Hall

Education

B.A. Virginia Tech; Ph.D. University of California at San Diego

Areas of Expertise

Philosophy of biology; history of biology

Selected Works

  • "From Mendel to Molecules: A Brief History of Evolutionary Genetics," in Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts and Case Studies, C W Fox and J B Wolf (eds.), (2006) 3-13.
  • Mitchell, S and M R Dietrich, "Integration without Unification: An Argument for Pluralism in the Biological Sciences," The American Naturalist, 168 (2006) S73-S79.
  • "Richard Goldschmidt: Hopeful Monsters and Other 'Heresies'," Nature Reviews Genetics, 4 (2003) 68-74.
  • "The Problem of the Gene," Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris, 323 (2000), 1139-1146.
  • "The Origins of the Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution," Journal of the History of Biology, 27 (1994) 21-59.

Current Projects

Rebels of Life: Iconoclastic Biologists of the Twentieth Century; "Three Perspectives on Neutrality and Drift in Molecular Evolution;" "Homeotic Mutants and the Assimilation of Developmental Genetics into the Evolutionary Synthesis;" "Manipulating Underdetermination in Scientific Controversy: The Case of the Molecular Clock;" "Beyond the Boss and the Boys: Women in Drosophila Genetics in the United States"