1. Recent reviews make it unnecssary to provide a complete list of the historical studies dealing with the rise of genetics. See for example Ernst Mayr, ?The Recent Historiography of Genetics?,J. Hist. Biol 6 (1973), 125?154. See also the extensive bibliographic eassay provided by Garland E. Allen,Life Science in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), pp. 236?241; and Daniel J. Kevles, ?Genetics in the United States and Great Britain, 1890?1930: A Review with Speculations?,Isis, 71 (1980), 441?445.
2. An explicit example of the search for the origins of genetics in the discussions of Aristotle can be found in A. H. Sturtevant,A History of Genetics, (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), pp. 1?8.
3. The notion of the synthesis and convergence of disciplines is fundamental to the account of William B. Provine,The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971). It is explicitly stated in Allen,Life Science, pp. 113?145; Frederick Churchill, ?William [sic] Johannsen and the Genotype Concept?,J. Hist. Biol., 7 (1974), 5?30; Garland E. Allen, ?Naturalists and Experimentalists: The, Genotype and the Phenotype?, in William Coleman and Camille Limoges, eds.,Studies in History of Biology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979). See also the many relevant essays in Ernst Mayr and William B. Provine, eds.,The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1980).
4. Pierre Bourdieu, ?The Specificity of the Scientific Field and the Social Conditions of the Progress of Reason?,Soc. Sci. Info., 6 (1975), 19?47.
5. Ibid., p. 21.