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Focusing on the early history of a natural museum, Star and Griesemer analyzed the ways in which amateurs, professionals, trappers, and administrators involved in the museum made sense of their different viewpoints.
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(Leigh and Griesemer, "Institutional Ecology, 'Translations,' and Boundary Objects" (1989)).
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Note 2: Star and Griesemer, "Institutional Ecology" (1989). back
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Griesemer, J. (2000), “R.production and the reduction of genetics”, in P. Beurton, R. Falk and H. - J. R.einberger (eds.),
Reductionism in Biology Brigandt, Ingo 2008
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Griesemer treats replication as the terminal form of reproduction, once coding mechanisms have been evolved, which is itself an evolved form of multiplication (Griesemer 2000b: 76).
Replication Hull, David 2008
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Unlike Dawkins 'replicator concept, which Griesemer believes is based on a similarity relationship of “copying”, a reproducer requires material overlap of systems.
Replication Hull, David 2008
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However, replication arises when material overlap evolves progeneration, and progeneration evolves a codical inheritance system, as the following figure (from Wimsatt and Griesemer 2007: 268) indicates:
Replication Hull, David 2008
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Griesemer pulls that rug out from under their feet by emphasizing the sheer force of accident, coincidence, and pure bad luck.
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Griesemer further underlines this point by frequently having various characters accidentally run into either each other or famous people as in the initially comical appearance by Karl Marx.
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As Joseph O'Connor shrewdly observes, "At heart, this clever novel is a meditation on that most unAmerican of topics, failure, and Griesemer has the courage to let it be exactly that."
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