• Contents

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• Preface

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• Vorwort

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• Das autobiographische Manuskript des Entwicklungsbiologen Julius Schaxel (1887-1943) vom 24. Juli 1938 – Versuch einer Kontextualisierung: Christian Reiß, Uwe Hoßfeld, Lennart Olsson, Georgy S. Levit & Oliver Lemuth

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• The downfall of civilised nations in the light of biology: Erwin Baur’s Darwinian Doomsday Science (1922/32): Thomas Junker

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• Johannes Reinke (1839-1931) – Botany, a study of pure divine service: Volker Wissemann

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• Race, Racial Biology and Eugenics in Swedish School-books from the 19th and 20th centuries: Mats E Svensson

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• A History of Evo-Devo in Britain; Theoretical ideals confront biological complexity: Tim J. Horder

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• Darwin's Hypotheses on the Origin of Domestic Animals and the History of German Shepherd Dogs: Tina Roth & Ulrich Kutschera

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• Das Weltbild von Darwin und Lamarck: Ernst Haeckel (Repro)

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• Instructions for Authors

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• Backcover

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The name DGGTB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie; German Society for the History and Theory of Biology) reflects recent history as well as German tradition. The Society is a relatively late addition to a series of German societies of science and medicine that began with the »Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften«, founded in 1910 by Leipzig University's Karl Sudhoff (1853-1938), who wrote: »We want to establish a ,German' society in order to gather German-speaking historians together in our special disciplines so that they form the core of an international society...«. Yet Sudhoff, at this time of burgeoning academic internationalism, was »quite willing« to accommodate the wishes of a number of founding members and »drop the word German in the title of the Society and have it merge with an international society«. The founding and naming of the Society at that time derived from a specifi c set of historical circumstances, and the