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The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

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Koroloff, Rachel

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Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...

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Masters Thesis

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guidance of Paul Farber, Mary Jo Nye, Robert Nye, Ben Mutschler, and the history faculty at Oregon
J.H. Woodger and the emergence of supra-empirical orders of discussion in early twentieth century biology

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Allen, Marshall William

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This investigation attempts to demonstrate that the development of the early 20th century biological enterprise involved a striving for a unifying theoretical perspective. A skeletal substantiation of this is given by an overview of early 20th century biology in which some biologists began recognizing a multiplicity of different orders of...

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Masters Thesis

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22, 1975 Typed by Mary Jo Stratton for Marshall W. Allen ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to
Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

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Blanchard, Nicholas

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By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...

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Dissertation

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arrived on campus absolutely green in the work of history. Ron Doel and Mary Jo Nye gave me an