Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison Joseph Needham and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalismmechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhns concept of paradigm change into this wideranging analysis emphasizing the role of model analogy and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical sy