André Pichot
André Pichot (* 1950 ) is a French theorist and historian of science who became known as a critic of modern biology and genetics .
life and work
Pichot was a student of Georges Canguilhem . He worked at the CNRS in Strasbourg and at the University of Nancy . In addition to studies on the history of science in the Ancient Near East and antiquity, he wrote critical works on genetics, molecular biology and evolutionary theory on the basis of extensive sources , in which he criticized what he believed to be a mechanistic, neo- Darwinian approach and the possibility of their misuse for eugenic purposes. He countered what he called “eugenism” with a theory of the living.
Publications
- Éléments pour une théorie de la biologie (1968, new edition éd. Maloine 1980)
- Histoire de la notion de vie (éd. Gallimard 1993)
- La Naissance de la science, Volume I. Mésopotamie, Égypte, Volume II. Grèce présocratique (éd. Gallimard, 1991) (German: The Birth of Science , Darmstadt 1995, new edition Cologne 2000)
- L'Eugénisme, ou les généticiens saisis par la philanthropie (coll. Optiques 1995)
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| SURNAME | Pichot, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French science theorist and science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |