Controversy and Conflict in Science: A Case Study — The English Biometric School and Mendel's Laws

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*For valuable criticism I am indebted to the referees. I wish to acknowledge the hospitality of the Warden and Council of Christ College, University of Tasmania, where this paper was drafted. Two important articles relating to this topic reached me after this paper was completed, and consequently I have not been able to refer to their findings as much as I would have liked. The papers are: B. J. Norton, 'The Biometric Defence of Darwinism', Journal of the History of Biology, 6 (1973), 283-316; and D. A. MacKenzie and S. B. Barnes, 'Historical and Sociological Analyses of Scientific Change: The Case of the Mendelian-Biometrician Controversy in England', Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Socialpsychologie (Spring 1975, forthcoming). 1 R. K. Merton, 'Science and Democratic Social Structure', Social Theory and Social Structure (New York, 1968), chapter 18. 2 Ibid., 614.

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