Representative Publications:
"The Beauty of the World: Evelyn Hutchinson's Vision of Science," in David K. Skelly, David M. Post, and Melinda D. Smith, eds. The Art of Ecology: Writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Yale University Press, 2010 (forthcoming). "The Role of Place in the History of Ecology", in Ian Billick and Mary Price, eds. The Ecology of Place: Contributions of Place-based Research to Ecological and Evolutionary Understanding, University of Chicago Press, 2010 (forthcoming).
"Frits Went's Atomic Age Greenhouse: The Changing Labscape on the Lab-Field Border," Journal of the History of Biology 42(2009):289-324.
"Maintaining Continuity through a Scientific Revolution: A Rereading of E. B. Wilson and T. H. Morgan on Sex Determination and Mendelism", Isis 98(2007):468-488. The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. M.A. Palmer, et al. "Ecological Science and Sustainability for the 21st Century", Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3(2005), 4-11. [Summary of Report by Visions Committee of the Ecological Society of America, Margaret Palmer, chair]. "Conveying the Intellectual Challenge of Ecology: An Historical Perspective", Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2(2004), 367-74. Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology. 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 1995. "Designing Nature Reserves: Adapting Ecology to Real-World Problems", Endeavour 26(2002), 9-14. "Creating a Science of Nature Reserve Design: Perspectives from History", Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 7(2002):61-69. "Neodarwinism and Natural History," in Science in the Twentieth Century, ed. John Krige and Dominique Pestre (Harwood Academic Publishing, 1997). "Economics and Evolution: Alfred James Lotka and the Economy of Nature," Natural Images in Economics , ed. Philip Morowski (Cambridge University Press, 1994). "An Elusive Science: Ecological Enterprise in the Southwestern United States," in Science and Nature: Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences , ed. Michael Shortland (British Society for the History of Science, 1993). "The Battling Botanist: Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Mutation Theory, and the Rise of Experimental Evolutionary Biology in America, 1900-1912," Isis 82 (1991), 479-509. "Toward a Natural History of the Human Psyche: Charles Manning Child, Charles Judson Herrick, and the Dynamic View of the Individual at the University of Chicago," The Expansion of American Biology, ed. Keith R. Benson (Rutgers University Press, 1991). | 
