The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920

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3 6 7 index Aarseth, Espen, 14 Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times (Veblen), 89 The Accursed Share (Bataille), 244, 262 acquisition: in biological and civil development , 224–26; culture of, 47, 62–64, 258–59, 287; heritable potential of the middle class, 225–26; memory predicated through, 242–43, 262; in wandering , 210–11, 223–28, 229–30. See also goods; ownership action. See force-action relationship; movement Adelman, Melvin, 37 Admari, Ralph, 44 advertising, growth in, 45 affect, 211–12, 230–34 Agassiz, Louis, 30, 108 agency: and acquisition, 224; and function, 185–86; heroic, 187, 218, 238, 239; information processing in changing, 262; and the panoramic mode, 22; and power, 195; and wandering, 210, 218 The Age of Innocence (Wharton), 40, 54, 204 Akers, Dwight, 51 Albright, George Leslie, 133, 134 Allard, Dean Conrad Jr., 129 Allen, Garland, 5, 35 Alpers, Svetlana, 141 altruism, 191–92 American Museum of Natural History, 203–5 analogy vs. homology, 95 Anderson, Benedict, 163 animals: domesticated, in fiction, 183–84; humans compared to, 11, 65, 179, 226–27; selection for economic potential, 178–79. See also horses aporia, 210, 217, 233–41, 252, 265. See also wandering Archer, Mrs., in The Age of Innocence, 33–34 Archer, Newland, 33, 54, 67–68 Aristotle, 213, 255 Army Corps of Engineers, 98–99 Astor family, 54 Audubon, John James, 117, 118 author, the implied, 161–71, 199, 247, 251 Bachelard, Gaston, 213–14 A Backward Glance (Wharton), 40 Baird, Mary Helen (née Churchill), 119–20 Baird, Spencer: about, 73–74, 77, 108, 117–19; career of, 128–31; collection practices of, 92, 117–18; contributions to natural science of, 98, 106, 126–27; data collection and organization methods of, 109–10, 122– 24, 133, 137; family and social connections of, 92, 119–20; management practices of, 98–104. See also specimen collection, Baird’s system of Baird, William M., 117 Baird School of Naturalists, 75–76 Barrow, Mark, 85, 113 Barrow, Mark, Jr., 122 bastard birth, 67–69, 229–30 Bataille, Georges, 244, 259, 262, 279 Bateson, Gregory, 263 Baudrillard, Jean, 85–87, 261 Beaufort, Fanny, 67 Beaufort, Julius, 33–34, 43, 67–69, 79 Beer, Gillian, 154–55, 163, 164, 239 Before Adam (London), 252 beliefs, 22 belief systems, economic practices and changes in, 90–91 Bellamy, Edward, 192 Beniger, James, 44, 52, 99, 113, 259, 287, 305 Benjamin, Walter, 199, 201, 242–43, 251, 252, 295 Bergson, Henri, 213, 255–56 Best, E. M., 168 Bhabbha, Homi K., 163 biogenetic law, 159–60 biography, virtual, 120–21 3 6 8 / I N D E X biological determinism, 160 biological development: acquisition and exchange of goods in, 224–26; and competition , 191–92; place in, 76, 124–28, 220– 23, 272; wandering in, 226–27 Biology in the Nineteenth Century (Coleman), 161 biology of power, 193–99 Blanchot, Maurice, 249 The Blood of the Nation (Jordan), 186f, 251 Bonner, Robert, 45–48, 53, 62 Booth, Wayne, 161 Bourdieu, Pierre, 17 Bowditch, H. P., 164 Bowker, Geoffrey, 8, 9, 180 Bradburn, John, 52, 57–58 breeding true, 32, 51–54 Brooks, Peter, 172, 201–2, 216 Brown, Isaac, 42 Browne, Janet, 124 Burbank, Elizabeth, 277 Burbank, Luther: bridging function of his work, 306; De Vries and, 271–72; on environment and heredity, 277–78; and exchange networks, 277; fictionalized in London’s novels, 279, 281; hybridization beliefs of, 278–83; hybridization methods of, 276–77, 283–88; industrial infrastructure used by, 273–76; industrial scale of experiments of, 283–88; panoramic view of life of, 303–4; record keeping practices of, 272–73, 299–305; on wandering, 219– 20; wizardry of, 305 Burk, Caroline, 223, 225 Burke, F., 231 California, emerging rural lifestyle of the middle class in, 275–76 The Call of the Wild (London), 159 Camerini, Jane, 137 capitalism, 52, 105. See also industrial development Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 117–19 Carnegie, Andrew, 49, 65 Castells, Manuel, 11, 75, 198, 287 Chambers, Ross, 155 Chandler, Alfred, 42, 44, 52, 99, 100, 110–11, 133, 190 change: gradual vs. sequential in narrative, 157; potential for, 256–58, 264; time vs. movement in, 238–39 chaos, managing through writing, 245–46 Chaplin, Charlie, 267 Chartier, Roger, 9 Churchill, Mary Helen, 119–20 Churchill, Sylvester, 119–20 cinema (film), 13, 255, 267, 304 civil development: acquisition and exchange of goods in, 224–26; and agricultural development, 276; cooperation in, 191– 92...