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294  \nConference  \nA Cultural History of Heredity III:  \n19th an d Early 20th Centuries  \nTable of Contents  \nIntroduction  \nStaffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger 3  \nMendel’s impact  \nRaphael Falk 9  \nThe Biometric Sense of Heredity:  \nStatistics, Pangenesis and Positivism  \nTheodore M. Porter 31  \nSources of Johannsen´s Genotype Theory  \nNils Roll–Hansen 43  \nInheritance of Acquired Characters:  \nHeredity and Evolution in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany  \nWolfgang Lefèvre 53  \nDarwinism versus Evo–Devo: a late–nineteenth century debate  \nJeffrey H. Schwartz 67  \nMessage in a Bottle:  \nThe Business of Vaccines and the Nature of Heredity after 1880  \nAndrew Mendelsohn 85  \nThe Chromosomal Theory of Heredity and the Problem of Gender Equality in the Work of Theodor and Marcella Boveri Helga Satzinger 101  \nHugo de Vries's transitions in research interest and method  \nIda H. Stamhuis 115  \nHerbert Spencer’s two editions of the Principles of Psychology: 1855 and 1870/72. Biological heredity and cultural inheritance  \nSnait B. Gissis 137  \nWriting Heredity:  \nEmile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart and Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks  \nUlrike Vedder 153  \nHeritage –Appropriation – Interpretation: The Debate on the Schiller Legacy in 1905  \nStefan Willer 167  \nFrom pedigree to database.  \nGenealogy and Human Heredity in Germany, 1890–1914  \nBernd Gausemeier 179  \nBismarck the Tomcat and Other Tales:  \nHeredity and Alcoholism in the Medical Sphere, The Netherlands 1850–1900  \nStephen Snelders, Frans J. Meijman and Toine Pieters 193  \nA Changing Landscape in the Medical Geography of ‘Hereditary’ Disease: Syphilis, Leprosy, and Tuberculosis in Hawai‘i (1863-1903)  \nPhilip K. Wilson 213  \nHow Cultural Is Heritage?  \nHumanity’s Black Sheep from Charles Darwin to Jack London  \nMarianne Sommer 233  \nRace and Kinship in Anthropology: Morgan and Boas  \nStaffan Müller–Wille 255  \nIntroduction  \nStaffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger  \nThe contributions to this volume were prepared for the workshop “A Cultural History of heredity III: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries” that took place at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science January 13-16, 2005. The workshop was part of a long-term interdisciplinary project dedicated to the cultural history of heredity. Concentrating in turn on a succession of time periods in chronological order, this series attempts to uncover and relate to each other the agricultural, technical, juridical, medical, and scientific practices in which knowledge of inheritance was materially anchored and in which it gradually revealed its effects.1 The two previous workshops took place in May 2001 and January 2003, each devoted to what we identified as ’historical epochs’ in the history of hereditary thought.2 What follows is a summary of the results reached so far in our project, of the questions we wanted to address with the third workshop, and the answers suggested to these questions by the contributions collected in this preprint.3  \nIn his book “The Logic of Life”, François Jacob already pointed out that the concept of reproduction, and by extension, that of heredity were virtually absent from speculations about generation until the eighteenth century. This we found largely corroborated. It maybe worthwhile to stress that heredity as a biological concept originated as a metaphor: prior to the nineteenth century it was used as a synonym of“inheritance” in legal contexts only, a sense which it since then has lost. It was only in the early nineteenth century, in medical contexts, that metaphors of heredity began to gain currency. Tobe sure: Phenomena that nowadays would count as hereditary had by no means gone unnoticed before. It seems, however, to be a simple matter of historical fact that these phenomena were not addressed in terms of inheritance.  \nThe conceptual reason for this w","cbCaiaPLFDVqhZLt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaPLFDVqhZLt","pdf",1729262,264,"English","# Introduction\n## Mendel’s impact\n## The Biometric Sense of Heredity: Statistics, Pangenesis and Positivism\n## Sources of Johannsen´s Genotype Theory\n## Inheritance of Acquired Characters\n## Darwinism versus Evo–Devo\n## Message in a Bottle: The Business of Vaccines\n## The Chromosomal Theory of Heredity\n## Hugo de Vries\n## Herbert Spencer’s Principles of Psychology\n## Writing Heredity\n## Heritage –Appropriation – Interpretation\n## From pedigree to database\n## Bismarck the Tomcat and Other Tales\n## A Changing Landscape in the Medical Geography\n## How Cultural Is Heritage?\n## Race and Kinship in Anthropology","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of Conference Preprint 294 in A Cultural History of Heredity III?\",\"answer\":\"It summarizes results from a third workshop exploring how knowledge of heredity was anchored in cultural practices across multiple domains and how earlier “historical epochs” shaped hereditary thought.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the introduction explain the origins of the biological concept of heredity?\",\"answer\":\"It traces heredity’s conceptual emergence from metaphorical inheritance usage in legal contexts to later adoption of hereditary metaphors in medical discourse in the early nineteenth century.\"},{\"question\":\"Why were pre-modern theories of generation different regarding heredity?\",\"answer\":\"Before the late eighteenth century, heredity transmission was not treated as a domain distinct from conception, pregnancy, development, birth, and even lactation, with similarities attributed to shared causal factor constellations.\"},{\"question\":\"Which themes structure the workshop contributions according to the introduction?\",\"answer\":\"The project concentrates on successive chronological periods and connects agricultural, technical, juridical, medical, and scientific practices where inheritance knowledge was materially grounded and gradually revealed its effects.\"}]","A Cultural History of Heredity III - 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Conference Preprint 294 | PDF",665]