Description In this provocative work, the historian Elof Carlson explores how new fields of the life sciences emerge.
Some scientists describe new theories, experiments, discoveries, or the use of new technology as paradigm shifts.
Others call them scientific revolutions.
The idea of paradigm shifts was introduced in 1962 by Thomas Kuhn, using as an example the emergence of the Copernican view that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the known universe.
Carlson, however, ar.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press How scientific progress occurs: incrementalism and the life sciences, hardcover/elof axel carlson
