The Darwinian Tradition in Context Research Programs in Evolutionary
It is the main goal of this volume to put in context the Darwinian tradition by raising questions such as: How should it be defined? Did it interacted with other research programs? Where there any research programs whose developments were largely conducte
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The Darwinian Tradition in Context Research Programs in Evolutionary Biology
The Darwinian Tradition in Context
Richard G. Delisle Editor
The Darwinian Tradition in Context Research Programs in Evolutionary Biology
Editor Richard G. Delisle Departments of Liberal Education and Philosophy University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, AB, Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-69121-3 ISBN 978-3-319-69123-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69123-7
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Preface
In the wake of the Evolutionary Synthesis constituted in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, historians and philosophers of biology have devoted considerable attention to the Darwinian tradition linking Charles Darwin to mid-twentieth-century developments in evolutionary biology. This historiographical focus may not be wholly coincidental, given the professionalization of the fields of history of science and philosophy of biology that accompanied the post-1960 era. Since then, more recent developments in evolutionary biology challenged the heritage of the Darwinian tradition as a whole or in part. Predictably, perhaps, this was followed by a historiographical “recalibration” by historians and philosophers toward other research programs and traditions since Darwin’s time. As this recalibration is going on, it is difficult not to have the impression of confusion or dismay regarding what exactly happened in evolutionary biology. In order to dispel some of this confusion, it seems timely to reunite in this volume synthetic contributions concerned with historical, philosophic
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