Fly and Worms in Science
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Many studies on material culture of science reconstruct processes of choice and transformation of certain organisms into experimental models in the life sciences. Such stories address how living organisms have been shaped, standardized, linked to laboratory devices and converted into preferred instruments for certain types of research. This happened with the drosophila in classical genetic research, for Kohler; with the worm C. elegans in molecular genetics, for Chadaverian. This article revisits these narratives and gives a new version of these histories, emphasizing the contribution of organisms, their bodies and behaviors to the research. But it is not so much about telling the story from the animals point of view as it is about showing how humans and other living beings have shaped and affected each other in science.
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