While epigenetics is quickly becoming a mainstream field of research, this was not always the case. Until recently epigenetics was a persona non grata within genetics; and even today the findings of epigenetics resesarch are often maligned as either unimportant or as psuedoscience. Epigenetics has a long and colorful scientific and cultural and political history which helps to explain its relatively recent – and still quite mixed – acceptance as a viable field of scientific research. Discussions regarding this history of epigenetics can be found below or by using the Categories list located on the righthand margin of this blog.
Radical Bodies: The Political Biology of the Enlightenment and Contemporary Political Theory
More About Waddington: Socialism, Science, and Epigenetics
C.H. Waddington: Genesis of the Original Epigeneticist
A Tale of Two Fields: Epigenetics and Biology Between the Wars
The Progressive Movement, Genetics, and the State
Eugenics and the Rise of Population Genetics
Alfred Russel Wallace, Ideology, and Evolution
Lamarckism and the Biology of Discontent in the 1800s
The Unfortunate Legacy of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Lamarck’s Actual Lamarckism (or How Contemporary Epigenetics is not Lamarckian)
The Reception of Epigenetics: More like Mendel or Darwin?
The History of Epigenetics and the Science of Social Progress
Epigenetics, ethics and the evolution of science
A Brief History of Epigenetics: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
A Brief History of Epigenetics: C.H. Waddington
Epigenetics and the Extended Synthesis
The Genetics of the Ethics of the Science of Genetics
Epigenetics Minority Report Part I: Epigenetics, blame, precrime and politics
Epigenetics as a Political Revolution?
More Than Just Science I: The Challenges of Epigenetics to our Traditional Ethics
More Than Just Science II: The Challenges of Epigenetics to our Traditional Ethics
More Than Just Science III: The Challenges of Epigenetics to our Traditional Ethics
More Than Science IV: The Challenges of Epigenetics to our Traditional Ethics
Epigenetics and Environmental Ethics I
Epigenetics and Environmental Ethics II: The Ancient Greeks and the Romans
Epigenetics and Environmental Ethics III: Genetics and the Rise of Christianity
Epigenetics and Environmental Ethics IV: Did Aristotle and Aquinas Discover DNA
History Part I: A Brief History of Epigenetics
History Part II: Epigenetics and the Politics of Science
History Part III: Epigenetics and the Dustbin of History
Epigenetics and Two of its Cold War Casualties
Epigenetics Before Epigenetics Was Cool?
The Nexus of Epigenetics 
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