Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter ii
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments x
5. 1. Introduction: On Rebels, Icons, and the Value of Dissent 1
6. 2. Alfred Russel Wallace, the Discovery of Natural Selection, and the Origins of Humankind 20
7. 3. Rebel With Two Causes: Hans Driesch 37
8. 4. Wilhelm Johannsen: A Rebel or a Diehard? 65
9. 5. Raymond Arthur Dart: The Man Who Unwillingly Ushered in a Revolution in the Evolution of Humankind 84
10. 6 In Weismann’s Footsteps: The Cyto-Rebellion of C. D. Darlington 103
11. 7. Striking the Hornet’s Nest: Richard Goldschmidt’s Rejection of the Particulate Gene 119
12. 8. Rebellion and Iconoclasm in the Life and Science of Barbara McClintock 137
13. 9. Challenging the Protein Dogma of the Gene: Oswald T. Avery, a Revolutionary Conservative 154
14. 10. Roger Sperry and Integrative Action in the Nervous System 174
15. 11. Leon Croizat: A Radical Biogeographer 194
16. 12. Dogma, Heresy, and Conversion: Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards’s Crusade and the Levels-of-Selection Debate 213
17. 13. Peter Mitchell: Changing the Face of Bioenergetics 231
18. 14. Howard Temin: Rebel of Evidence and Reason 248
19. 15. Motoo Kimura and the Rise of Neutralism 265
20. 16. Against the Grain: The Science and Life of William D. Hamilton 282
21. 17. The Iconoclastic Research Program of Carl Woese 302
22. 18. Stephen Jay Gould, Darwinian Iconoclast? 321
23. 19. Culture and Gender Do Not Dissolve into How Scientists “Read” Nature: Thelma Rowell’s Heterodoxy 338
24. 20. Bringing Statistical Methods to Community and Evolutionary Ecology: Daniel S. Simberloff 356
25. Epilogue: Legitimation Is the Name of the Game 372
26. Contributors 381
27. Index 385