Background
Mitman, Gregg Alden was born on October 9, 1960 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.
( Although science may claim to be "objective," scientist...)
Although science may claim to be "objective," scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of this century. Reacting against the view of nature "red in tooth and claw," ecologists and behavioral biologists such as Warder Clyde Allee, Alfred Emerson, and their colleagues developed research programs they hoped would validate and promote an image of human society as essentially cooperative rather than competitive. Mitman argues that Allee's religious training and pacifist convictions shaped his pioneering studies of animal communities in a way that could be generalized to denounce the view that war is in our genes.
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Mitman, Gregg Alden was born on October 9, 1960 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.
Bachelor of Science in Biology, Dalhousie University, 1981. Master of Arts in History of Science, University Wisconsin, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science, University Wisconsin, 1988.
Rockefeller fellow in humanities department history of science, U. Oklahoma, Norman, 1988-1989;
assistant professor department history of science, U. Oklahoma, Norman, 1991-1995;
associate professor, since 1995. Visiting assistant professor department history of science University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1989-1990. Visiting assistant professor program in history of science and technical University of Minnesota, 1990-1991;co-organizer Dibner Seminar in History of Biology, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1992.
Director Mellon postdoctoral fellow in historyof Science U. Oklahoma, since 1994. Presenter in field.
( Although science may claim to be "objective," scientist...)
Member History of Science Society, International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Society for Literature and Science.