Research Interests
I am a historian of genetics, especially pre-coalescent population genetics.
Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl
Publications
Grodwohl, J. B. (2019). Animal Behavior, Population Biology and the Modern Synthesis (1955–1985). Journal of the History of Biology, 1-37.
Grodwohl J-B., Franco Porto and Charbel El-Hani, (2018) “The Instability of Field Experiments in Ecology: Building an experimental culture on the rocky seashores (1950-1985)”, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 40(3): 1-27.
Grodwohl J-B. (2018) “Reading and Misreading Fisher: Anthony Edwards and the History of Population Genetics”. In Rasmus G. Winther (ed.) Phylogenetic Inference, Selection Theory and History of Science: Selected Papers of Anthony W.F. Edwards (F.R.S.), with Commentaries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 384-396.
Grodwohl, J. B. (2017). “‘The Theory was Beautiful Indeed’: Rise, Fall and Circulation of Maximizing Methods in Population Genetics (1930–1980)”. Journal of the History of Biology, 50(3), 571-608.
Grodwohl J-B. (2017) “Natural Selection, Adaptive Topographies and Statistical Inference: Putting the Moraba scurra controversy under the microscope”, Journal of the History of Biology, 50(4), 753-796.
Grodwohl J-B. (2017) “Inclusive fitness meets population structure: Modeling social evolution (1968-1973)”, Historical Studies of Natural Sciences, 47(1) :1-41.
