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Why read Elie Metchnikoff’s evolutionary biology papers? First, this research is of historical importance in its own right, reflecting a highly creative and critical opus of the latter half of nineteenth-century biology. Any consideration of this topic requires acquaintance with his thought. Second, although best known for his immunological theories, not his earlier work in embryology, it was Metchnikoff’s foundational research in the problematics of Darwinian theory that drove his studies in pathology and natural host defense.
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Gourko, H., Williamson, D.I., Tauber, A.I. (2000). Introduction. In: Gourko, H., Williamson, D.I., Tauber, A.I. (eds) The Evolutionary Biology Papers of Elie Metchnikoff. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 212. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9381-6_1
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