Introduction: Working Together on Individuality
Lynn K. Nyhart and Scott Lidgard
l The Work of Biological Individuality: Concepts and Contexts
Scott Lidgard and Lynn K. Nyhart
2 Cells, Colonies, and Clones: Individuality in the Volvocine Algae
Matthew D. Herron
3 Individuality and the Control of Life Cycles
Beckett Sterner
4 Discovering the Ties That Bind: Cell-Cell Communication and the Development of Cell Sociology
Andrew S. Reynolds
5 Alternation of Generations and Individuality, 1851
Lynn K. Nyhart and Scott Lidgard
6 Spencer’s Evolutionary Entanglement: From Liminal Individuals to Implicit Collectivities
Snait Gissis
7 Biological Individuality and Enkapsis: From Martin Heidenhain’s Synthesiology to the Völkisch National Community
Olivier Rieppel
8 Parasitology, Zoology, and Society in France, ca. 1880–1920
Michael A. Osborne
9 Metabolism, Autonomy, and Individuality
Hannah Landecker
10 Bodily Parts in the Structure-Function Dialectic
Ingo Brigandt
Commentaries: Historical, Biological, and Philosophical Perspectives
11 Distrust That Particular Intuition: Resilient Essentialisms and Empirical Challenges in the History of Biological Individuality
James Elwick
12 Biological Individuality: A Relational Reading
Scott F. Gilbert
13 Philosophical Dimensions of Individuality
Alan C. Love and Ingo Brigandt
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index