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MANFRED LAUBICHLER Professor Affiliated Professor of Philosophy Ph.D. (Biology), 1997, Yale University Ph.D. (History), Princeton University (forthcoming) Send e-mail to Manfred.Laubichler@asu.edu

Theoretical Biology, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, History of Biology

Dr Laubichler's research covers three distinct yet overlapping areas. His work in theoretical biology is focused on conceptual and mathematical issues, such as the problem of defining biological characters in development and evolution, the homology problem, and the theory of epistatic and epigenetic effects.

In evolutionary developmental biology Dr Laubichler is interested in problems of phenotypic evolution focusing on social insects as a model system. His ultimate interest is to contribute to an understanding of evolutionary innovations through the integration of genetic, developmental, physiological, and behavioral perspectives.

In History of Biology Dr. Laubichler specializes on 19th and 20th century biology. He is especially interested in the history of theoretical biology and the history of embryology and developmental biology. He is writing one book on the history of theoretical biology and a second one on twentieth century theories of development in context and is working on several collaborative projects in the history of developmental biology and the cultural history of Fin-de-Siecle biology.

Dr. Laubichler is a founding associate editor of Biological Theory, published by MIT Press and an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Zoology, Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, and also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Biology.

Dr. Laubichler is a member of the Centers for Biology and Society and Social Dynamics and Complexity at ASU, an external faculty member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria, a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and a collaborator of the Institute for Theoretical Biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Selected Publications

Books

W. Aird (editor.), M.D. Laubichler et al. (associate editors) (2007): Endothelial Biomedicine, Cambridge University Press

M.D. Laubichler and G.B. Müller (eds.) (2007). Modeling Biology: Structures Behaviors, Evolution, MIT Press.

M.D. Laubichler and J. Maienschein (eds.) (2007): From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Embryology in the 20th Century, MIT Press, Dibner Series.

M.Hagner and M.D. Laubichler (eds.) (2006): Die Bedeutung des Allgemeinen in den Wissenschaften des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Diaphanes Verlag.

Peer Reviewed Articles

M.D. Laubichler and Karl J. Niklas: The Morphological Tradition in German Paleontology: Otte Jaekel, Walter Zimmermann and Otto Schindewolf, in David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse (eds.) Paleontology at the High Table, University of Chicago Press, in press

W. Aird and M.D. Laubichler. Introductory Essay; Evolution, Comparative Biology and Development , in W. Aird (ed.) Endothelial Biomedicine . Cambridge University Press, pp. 23-28.

M.D. Laubichler, W. Aird, and J. Maienschein . Endothelium: A History, in W. Aird (ed.) Endothelial Biomedicine. Cambridge University Press, pp. 5-22.

M.D. Laubichler: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, in David Hull and Michael Ruse (eds.) Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, Cambridge University Press, pp: 342-360.

M.D. Laubichler and J. Maienschein: Embryos, Cells, Genes, and Organisms: A Few Reflections on the History of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, in Robert Brandon and Roger Sansom (eds.) Integrating Evolution and Development: From Theory to Practice, MIT Press, pp: 1-24.

M.D. Laubichler: The specter of the past. What the history of theoretical biology means today, Biological Theory, in press

M.D. Laubichler (2007): The regulatory genome: Eric Davidson at 70. BioEssays, 29: 937-939.

M.D. Laubichler: Tinkering: a historical evaluation, in D. Lieberman (ed.) (2007): Tinkering: the microevolution of development. Novartis Foundation Symposium 284, Wiley, pp. 20-28.

M.D. Laubichler, G.B. Müller, and J. Collins and S. Gilbert (2007): Modeling in EvoDevo: How to Integrate Development, Evolution, and Ecology, in M.D. Laubichler and G.B. Müller (eds.), Modeling Biology: Structures, Behavior, Evolution, MIT Press, pp. 355-378.

M.D. Laubichler and G.B. Müller (2007): Models in Theoretical Biology, in M.D. Laubichler and G.B. Müller (eds.), Modeling Biology: Structures, Behavior, Evolution, MIT Press, pp. 3-10.

M.D. Laubichler (2007): Does History Recapitulate Itself? Reflections on the Origins of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, in M.D. Laubichler and J. Maienschein (eds.) (2007): From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Embryology in the 20th Century, MIT Press, pp. 13-34.

J. Gadau and M.D. Laubichler (2006): Relatedness: Capturing Cohesion in Biological Systems, Biological Theory, 1: 416-419.

M.D. Laubichler (2006): Biologie als selbstständige Grundwissenschaft und die allgemeinen Grundlagen des Lebens, in M. Hagner and M.D. Laubichler (eds.) Der Hochsitz des Wissens; Das Allgemeine als wissenschaftlicher Wert, Diaphanes Verlag, Zürich, pp. 185-205.

P. Hammerstein, E. Hagen, and M.D. Laubichler (2006): Strategies: A Central Concept in Biological and Economical Theory, Biological Theory, 1: 198-201.

M.D. Laubichler and H.J. Rheinberger (2006): August Weismann and Theoretical Biology, Biological Theory, 1: 202-205.

J.S. Robert, J. Maienschein, and M.D. Laubichler (2006): Systems Bioethics and Stem Cell Biology, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 3: 19-31.

M.D. Laubichler, P. Hammerstein, and E. Hagen (2005): The Concept of Strategies and John Maynard Smith’s Influence on Theoretical Biology, Biology and Philosophy 20: 1041-1050.

M.D. Laubichler (2005): Systemtheoretische Organismuskonzeptionen, in Ulrich Krohs und Georg Toepfer (eds.) Einführung in die Philosophie der Biologie, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, pp: 109-124.

M.D. Laubichler (2005): Evolutionäre Entwicklungsbiologie, in Ulrich Krohs und Georg Toepfer (eds.) Einführung in die Philosophie der Biologie, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, pp: 322-337.

M.D. Laubichler and H.-J. Rheinberger (2004): Alfred Kuehn and Developmental Evolution, Journal of Experimental Zoology: Part B, 302B: 103-110

G.P. Wagner and M.D. Laubichler (2004): Rupert Riedl and the Re-Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology, Journal of Experimental Zoology: Part B, 302B: 92-102

R. Gorelick and M.D. Laubichler (2004): Decomposing Multi-locus Linkage Disequilibrium. Genetics, 166: 1581-1583.

M.D. Laubichler (2003): Carl Gegenbaur (1832-1903): Integrating Comparative Anatomy and Embryology. Journal of Experimental Zoology: Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 300B: 23-31.

M.D. Laubichler and G.P. Wagner (2003): Editorial: A new series of vignettes on the history of evolutionary developmental biology. Journal of Experimental Zoology: Part B, 299: 1-2.

M.K.Chew and M.D. Laubichler (2003): Natural Enemies: Metaphor or Misconception?, Science, 301: 52-53.

M.D. Laubichler (2003): Units and Levels of Selection in Developing Systems, in Brian Hall and Wendy Olson (eds.) Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, pp:332-341.

M.D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein (2003): Ontogeny, Anatomy, and the Problem of Homology: Carl Gegenbaur and the American Tradition of Cell Lineage Studies, Theory in Biosciences, 112: 194-203.

M.D. Laubichler (2002): An egg is and egg is an egg [Essay Review of Evelyn Fox Keller: Making Sense of Life], Cell, 111: 460-461.

M.D. Laubichler and S. Sarkar (2002): Flies, Genes, and Brains: OskarVogt, Nicolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, and the Origin of the Concepts of Penetrance and Expressivity in Classical genetics, in L. Parker and R.A. Ankeny (eds.) Medical Genetics. Conceptual Foundations and Classic Questions, Dordrecht, Kluwer, pp: 63-85.

G.Geison and M.D. Laubichler (2001): Reflections on the Role of Organismal and Cultural Variation in the History of the Biological Sciences, Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. & Biomed. Sci, 32: 1-29.

M.D. Laubichler and G.P. Wagner (2001): How molecular is molecular developmental biology? A reply to Alex Rosenberg's Reductionism Redux: Computing the Embryo, Biology and Philosophy, 16: 53-67.

M.D. Laubichler (2000): The organism is dead. Long live the organism! Perspectives on Science, 8: 286-315. [Essay Review]

M.D. Laubichler (2000): Homology in Development and the Development of the Homology Concept, American Zoologist, 40: 777-788.

G.P. Wagner, C. Chiu & M.D. Laubichler (2000): Developmental Evolution as a Mechanistic Science: The Inference from Developmental Mechanisms to Evolutionary Processes, American Zoologist, 40: 819-831.

M.D. Laubichler and G.P. Wagner (2000): Organism and Character Decomposition: Steps towards an Integrative Theory of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Supplement 67: S289-300.

G.P Wagner and M.D. Laubichler (2000): Character Identification in Evolutionary Biology: The Role of the Organism, Theory in Biosciences, 119: 20-40; reprinted in G.P. Wagner (ed.) The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology, San Diego, Academic Press, pp. 141-163.

M.D. Laubichler (1999): Frankenstein in the land of Dichter and Denker. Essay on Science and Society. Science, 286: 1859-1860

M.D. Laubichler (1999): A semiotic perspective on biological objects and functions, Semiotica, 127: 415-432

G.P. Wagner, M.D. Laubichler, H. Bagheri-Chaichian (1998), Genetic Measurement Theory of Epistatic Effects. Genetica, 102/103: 569-580.