| Developmental constraints and evolution: a perspective from the Mountain Lake conference on development and evolution JM Smith, R Burian, S Kauffman, P Alberch, J Campbell, B Goodwin, ... The Quarterly Review of Biology 60 (3), 265-287, 1985 | 520 | 1985 |
| Genes, organisms, populations: Controversies over the units of selection RN Brandon, RM Burian | 286 | 1984 |
| More than a marriage of convenience: On the inextricability of history and philosophy of science RM Burian Philosophy of Science 44 (1), 1-42, 1977 | 134 | 1977 |
| The singular fate of genetics in the history of French biology, 1900–1940 RM Burian, J Gayon, D Zallen Journal of the History of Biology 21 (3), 357-402, 1988 | 132 | 1988 |
| Exploratory experimentation and the role of histochemical techniques in the work of Jean Brachet, 1938-1952 RM Burian History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 19 (1), 27-45, 1997 | 130 | 1997 |
| How the choice of experimental organism matters: Epistemological reflections on an aspect of biological practice RM Burian Journal of the History of Biology, 351-367, 1993 | 128 | 1993 |
| On conceptual change in biology: The case of the gene RM Burian Evolution at a crossroads: The new biology and the new philosophy of science …, 1985 | 111 | 1985 |
| The epistemology of development, evolution, and genetics R Burian Cambridge University Press, 2005 | 99 | 2005 |
| Evolutionary analyses of non-genealogical bonds produced by introgressive descent E Bapteste, P Lopez, F Bouchard, F Baquero, JO McInerney, RM Burian Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (45), 18266-18272, 2012 | 97 | 2012 |
| The dilemma of case studies resolved: The virtues of using case studies in the history and philosophy of science RM Burian Perspectives on Science 9 (4), 383-404, 2001 | 94 | 2001 |
| Adaptation: historical perspectives RM Burian Keywords in evolutionary biology, 7-12, 1992 | 79 | 1992 |
| Molecular epigenesis, molecular pleiotropy, and molecular gene definitions RM Burian History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 59-80, 2004 | 75 | 2004 |
| On microRNA and the need for exploratory experimentation in post-genomic molecular biology RM Burian History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 285-311, 2007 | 67 | 2007 |
| Philosophies of funding MA O'Malley, KC Elliott, C Haufe, RM Burian Cell 138 (4), 611-615, 2009 | 66 | 2009 |
| The French school of genetics: From physiological and population genetics to regulatory molecular genetics RM Burian, J Gayon Annual Review of Genetics 33 (1), 313-349, 1999 | 64 | 1999 |
| A methodological critique of sociobiology RM Burian The sociobiology debate, 376-95, 1978 | 62 | 1978 |
| Sober on Brandon on screening-off and the levels of selection RN Brandon, J Antonovics, R Burian, S Carson, G Cooper, PS Davies, ... Philosophy of Science 61 (3), 475-486, 1994 | 59 | 1994 |
| Challenges to the evolutionary synthesis RM Burian Evolutionary biology, 247-269, 1988 | 59 | 1988 |
| Dimensions of Darwinism RM Burian, M Grene | 57 | 1983 |
| Technique, task definition, and the transition from genetics to molecular genetics: Aspects of the work on protein synthesis in the laboratories of J. Monod and P. Zamecnik RM Burian Journal of the History of Biology 26 (3), 387-407, 1993 | 52 | 1993 |
James McInerneyChair in Evolutionary Biology, University of NottinghamVerified email at nottingham.ac.uk
