1. Candide in Academe Meets Tracy Agonistes A coming of Age in Bloomington, 1946-1951
   
2. Tilting Windmills - Educational Misadventures in the Big Ten
   

"The materials found on this web site are the imperfect first drafts in a series of essays, and are currently and constantly under revision. Your comments, corrections, and additions are heartily welcomed.....d-nanney@uiuc.edu"

1. Protists and the Origin of Species
   
2. Tetrahymena Biogeography

"Lumping of similar morphotypes denies the significance of the cryptic species long known in ciliates. Lumping flies in the face of fragmentary but hardly negligible evidence for genetic differences among phenotypically similar protists in different habitats and in different regions of the world. This issue may be of considerable importance in our understanding of global biodiversity, since the significance of protist biodiversity is not restricted to the naming of the ciliated protozoa, but also concerns their roles in the natural economy".....David L. Nanney

1. Epigenetic Entrepreneurs: Historical Perspectives and Tetrahymena Epigenetics
2. Metaphor and Mechanism:"Epigenetic Control Systems" Reconsidered (San Francisco, 1989)
3. Flashback: Epigenetic Control Systems (Gif-sur-Yvette, 1958)
   

1. Frontier Connections - The Medal goes public in Pisa
   
2. The Medal Holders
   
   • Emile Maupas
     
   • Herbert Spencer Jennings
     
   • Tracy Morton Sonneborn
     
   • David L. Nanney
     
   • Nicola Ricci
     
   • Eduardo Orias

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