@article{kimler_2023, title={Life out of Balance: Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World}, ISSN={["1573-0387"]}, DOI={10.1007/s10739-023-09714-y}, journal={JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY}, author={Kimler, William}, year={2023}, month={Mar} }
 @article{kimler_2023, title={Life out of Balance: Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World (Mar, 10.1007/s10739-023-09714-y, 2023)}, ISSN={["1573-0387"]}, DOI={10.1007/s10739-023-09718-8}, journal={JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY}, author={Kimler, William}, year={2023}, month={May} }
 @article{kimler_2012, title={Case Studies, Controversy and the ‘Fieldworker's Regress’}, volume={69}, ISSN={0003-3790 1464-505X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2010.510939}, DOI={10.1080/00033790.2010.510939}, abstractNote={The ‘infanticide controversy’ has been an intense dispute among students of wild primate behaviour, remaining irresolvable for over three decades. Amanda Rees takes what could be but a narrow case in a corner of science and, with a sociological framing for her historical narrative, provides insight into how and why controversies persist. It started with fieldwork on monkeys. Surprising observations in the 1970s, of adult males killing infant langurs (a group of Old World monkeys), prompted a new theory. It was contrary to mainstream thinking about social behaviour, and it employed newly articulated theory from sociobiology to treat infanticide as an evolved, adaptive reproductive strategy. Killing of infants in large social groups of langurs had been observed before, but it did not have a place as a phenomenon of interest in the primatological literature. Sarah Hrdy’s publication in 1974 not only put a startling emphasis on observations of intentional killing, it shifted the theoretical focus from the langur troop structure and socialisation to the reproductive success, and violent strategies, of the dominant males. Hrdy’s work came a decade after the first modern studies of primates in the field. Langur studies were already at the core of the theoretical literature because of the pioneering fieldwork of Phyllis Jay (later Dolinhow) at two sites in India. The dominant theoretical interest of the time was to discover species-typical social behaviour, and throughout the early 1960s Jay published a series of influential papers on langur social structure. Her study sites were ecologically quite different, contrasting a heavily cultivated area with a forested site of low human population density. This variation in local ecology provided the natural laboratory for discerning the basic patterns lying below behavioural variability.}, number={1}, journal={Annals of Science}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Kimler, William}, year={2012}, month={Jan}, pages={127–132} }
 @misc{kimler_2012, title={The infanticide controversy: Primatology and the art of field science.}, volume={69}, number={1}, journal={Annals of Science}, author={Kimler, W.}, year={2012}, pages={127–132} }
 @article{kimler_2010, title={Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution.}, volume={21}, ISSN={["1045-6007"]}, DOI={10.1353/jwh.0.0101}, abstractNote={Reviewed by: Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution William C. Kimler Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution. By Iain McCalman. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009. 400 pp. $29.95 (cloth). It is an intriguing fact that three of Charles Darwin’s closest allies in the immediate controversy over his theory of evolution were, like Darwin, British naturalists with deep experience in the far off Southern Hemisphere. Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Alfred Russel Wallace had also gone as young men on transformative journeys. Their travels helped make their careers and grounded new insights into the great issue of the relationships of species, habitats, and histories. Iain McCalman provides a clear, often sharp, and always entertaining collective account of their formative experiences. It is his aim to show how their lives as young naturalists set up a later network of collaborators and supporters for Darwin. The theme for the book is announced at the outset. Darwin’s most ardent supporters held “a common experience of hardship and pleasure that bound them together like shipmates” (pp. 12–13). They became close friends as well as mutually respected scientific colleagues. McCalman highlights their feelings of direct and honest trust among sailors, and sees this as pivotal to their forging a coordinated campaign for Darwinian evolution. This is a salutary emphasis on the often overlooked 1850s and the run-up to the evolution debates, within a set of closely interacting challengers to orthodoxy. McCalman perceives a greater significance, drawing on a mostly implicit essentialism, in the special nature of the southern oceans. The tie of the seafaring experience was strengthened by the impact of a shared natural world. It is true that Hooker, Huxley, and Wallace were counted by Darwin as among the most persuaded by his theory, and the shared seafaring is a context of importance in their relationships. But there were others in the close circle who campaigned for the new science. Charles Lyell was clearly a major mentor and significant political ally, and like Asa Gray was no explorer. The value of this book is its account of the friendships and exchanges behind a scientific revolution. As recent scholarship has eliminated the image of an isolated recluse, it is clear, however, that the genial and generous and rather manipulative Darwin did not rely upon only the old salts. A handful of historians have noted in general that widely traveled naturalists were quick, compared to the “cabinet naturalist” collectors, to take up evolution. It does seem that exotic experience was disruptive to received ways of thought, and the landscapes visited by the four [End Page 158] travelers provided startlingly different worlds from Britain. But this is not to say that something distinctive about the Southern Hemisphere prompted evolutionary ideas. Despite various overlaps of experience in Australia, or in remote southern islands, or with life aboard ship, the four performed quite distinct duties and scientific work. Darwin traveled as a gentleman with the attendant opportunities and support, whereas Wallace lived by his wits and enterprise. Wallace used ships of course to travel, but did no shipboard work; it is a stretch to call him a seafaring naturalist. Hooker and Huxley had naval appointments, mingling their own interests with required scientific duties. They had occasional periods ashore for exploration, but nothing like Darwin’s and Wallace’s extensive travel, collection, and observation in South America and the Malay Archipelago. By telling their individual stories, McCalman makes obvious their different exposures, even as he seeks the common thread. He is clear about each man’s developing ideas and notes in passing their place in the rapidly changing sciences of geology, systematics, and biogeography. It seems more circumstance, however, than necessity as to which locale prompted their new ideas. McCalman emphasizes the resulting friendship from a shared life. Others might argue that their strong ties included an immersion in overwhelming diversity, and the travails of travel and work in remote, quite un-English places. They all encountered the provocative dilemmas raised for creationism by peculiar island life; those were the species that suggested relationships of origin, beyond the so...}, number={1}, journal={JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY}, author={Kimler, William C.}, year={2010}, month={Mar}, pages={158–160} }
 @article{kimler_2005, title={Nemesis Divina}, volume={38}, ISSN={["0007-0874"]}, DOI={10.1017/s0007087405276963}, abstractNote={CARL VON LINNÉ, Nemesis Divina. Edited and translated with explanatory notes by M. J. Petry. Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 177. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Pp. xviii+483. ISBN 0-7923-6820-7. £119.00, $169.00 (hardback). - Volume 38 Issue 2}, number={137}, journal={BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE}, author={Kimler, WC}, year={2005}, month={Jun}, pages={227–228} }
 @misc{kimler_2004, title={John A.  Moore. From Genesis to Genetics: The Case of Evolution and Creationism. xvi + 231 pp., illus., refs., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. $27.50 (cloth).}, volume={95}, ISSN={0021-1753 1545-6994}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/426272}, DOI={10.1086/426272}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsJohn A. Moore. From Genesis to Genetics: The Case of Evolution and Creationism. xvi + 231 pp., illus., refs., bibl., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. $27.50 (cloth).William KimlerWilliam Kimler Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 95, Number 2June 2004 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/426272 Views: 15Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={2}, journal={Isis}, publisher={University of Chicago Press}, author={Kimler, William}, year={2004}, month={Jun}, pages={337–338} }
 @article{kimler_2003, title={What evolution is. New York: Basic books}, volume={11}, ISSN={["1063-1801"]}, DOI={10.1353/con.2004.0021}, abstractNote={Ernst Mayr. What Evolution Is. New York: Basic Books, 2001. xv + 318 pp., illus., glossary. $24.00.}, number={2}, journal={CONFIGURATIONS}, author={Kimler, W}, year={2003}, pages={272–274} }
 @article{kimler_2000, title={Reading Morgan's Canon: Reduction and unification in the foraging of a science of the mind}, volume={40}, ISSN={["0003-1569"]}, DOI={10.1668/0003-1569(2000)040[0853:RMSCRA]2.0.CO;2}, abstractNote={Abstract Lloyd Morgan's advisory “Canon” on ascribing mental phenomena had an historically unusual and deep impact. It became a dictum defining true psychological science, praised for providing the foundation of a mature, hard science. Seen as a corrective to naive methodology and excessive speculation, it appeared to demand removal of mental qualities in the name of parsimony and rigor. Thus it is also disparaged for illegitimately limiting inquiry. Viewing Morgan's method and reasoning as the reactions of a Darwinian to the problems of psychology provides insight for a science of animal mind. The Canon should be seen as methodological advice for a science caught in the tensions between materialism and subjective mental experience, having to place human mind within phylogenetic continuity. Faced with irresolvable difficulties, behavioral science has oscillated between reduction and unifying integration, typical of debates over broad conceptual issues in evolutionary biology. The reasoning behind Morgan's Canon provides a strategy for balancing these twin pulls of scientific practice.}, number={6}, journal={AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST}, author={Kimler, WC}, year={2000}, month={Dec}, pages={853–861} }
 @article{kimler_2000, title={Review of science, race, and religion in the American South}, volume={77}, number={2000}, journal={North Carolina Historical Review}, author={Kimler, W. C.}, year={2000}, pages={389–390} }
 @misc{kimler_1999, title={Ever Since Adam and Eve slices human sexuality with a Darwinian blade: essay review of Ever Since Adam and Eve by Malcolm Potts and Roger Short}, volume={87}, number={1999}, journal={American Scientist}, author={Kimler, W. C.}, year={1999}, pages={362–366} }
 @misc{jackson_kimler_1999, title={Taxonomy and the personal equation: The historical fates of Charles Girard and Louis Agassiz}, volume={32}, ISSN={["0022-5010"]}, DOI={10.1023/A:1004784904703}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY}, author={Jackson, JR and Kimler, WC}, year={1999}, pages={509–555} }
 @inbook{kimler_1998, title={Ecology: Disciplinary history}, booktitle={Sciences of the earth: An encyclopedia of events, people, and phenomena}, publisher={New York: Garland Pub.}, author={Kimler, W. C.}, year={1998}, pages={219–225} }
 @inbook{kimler_1998, title={Evolution and the geosciences}, booktitle={Sciences of the earth: An encyclopedia of events, people, and phenomena}, publisher={New York: Garland Pub.}, author={Kimler, W. C.}, year={1998}, pages={238–243} }
 @misc{kimler_1997, title={Tracing evolutionary biology's intellectual phylogeny: Review of Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940, by Peter J. Bowler}, volume={85}, number={1997}, journal={American Scientist}, author={Kimler, W. C.}, year={1997}, pages={177–178} }