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these passages in his commentary on a version of this chapter presented at the
Philosophy and History of Biology Workshop, Center for Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh, March 23-24, 2002.
32. H. J. Muller,
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34. Bernal,
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35. Ibid., 72, 89. See also Gary Werskey,
The Visible College: A Collective Biog-
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(London: Free Association
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36. On Greek eugenics in general, see David J. Galton, “Greek Theories on
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37. See, for example, H. G. Wells,
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38. Cited in Morton,
Vital Science
, 110-112.
39. Silver,
Remaking Eden
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40. Silver,
Remaking Eden
, 292-293.
41. Leon Trotsky,
Literature and Revolution
(1924; repr., Ann Arbor: Univer-
sity of Michigan Press, 1960), 254-255.
42. Ibid., 256.
43. See Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee,
The DNA Mystique: The Gene
as a Cultural Icon
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44. See Diane B. Paul, “From Reproductive Responsibility to Reproductive
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, ed. Lisa S. Parker and Rachel A. Ankeny (Dordrecht: Kluwer Aca-
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the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity
(Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1999), 65-81.
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47. Barbara Katz Rothman,
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(Boston:
Beacon Press, 2001), 217.
48. Rachel Carson,
Silent Spring
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50. Sinsheimer, “The Prospect of Designed Genetic Change,” 13.
