Research
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Latest papers
The redoubtable cell.
Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences · 2010 · first author
Amoebae as exemplary cells: the protean nature of an elementary organism.
Journal of the history of biology · 2008 · first author
Ernst Haeckel's discovery of Magosphaera planula: a vestige of metazoan origins?
History and philosophy of the life sciences · 2008 · first author
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Ernst Haeckel and the philosophy of cell theory: the cell as an elementary organism
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
5 publications.
The redoubtable cell.
Reynolds A
Amoebae as exemplary cells: the protean nature of an elementary organism.
Reynolds A
Ernst Haeckel's discovery of Magosphaera planula: a vestige of metazoan origins?
Reynolds A, Hülsmann N
The cell's journey: from metaphorical to literal factory.
Reynolds A
The theory of the cell state and the question of cell autonomy in nineteenth and early twentieth-century biology.
Reynolds A
Ernst Haeckel and the philosophy of cell theory: the cell as an elementary organism
Principal investigators: Reynolds, Andrew S.
Keywords: history and philosophy of science; evolution; cell biology; protistology; metaphysics
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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