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The Darwinian Tradition in Context - Research Programs in Evolutionary Biology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The main goal of this book is to put the Darwinian tradition in
context by raising questions such as: How should it be defined? Did
it interact with other research programs? Were there any research
programs that developed largely independently of the Darwinian
tradition? Accordingly, the contributing authors explicitly explore
the nature of the relationship between the Darwinian tradition and
other research programs running in parallel. In the wake of the
Synthetic Theory of Evolution, which was established throughout the
1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, historians and philosophers of biology
devoted considerable attention to the Darwinian tradition, i.e.,
linking Charles Darwin to mid-Twentieth-Century developments in
evolutionary biology. Since then, more recent developments in
evolutionary biology have challenged, in part or entirely, the
heritage of the Darwinian tradition. Not surprisingly, this has in
turn been followed by a historiographical "recalibration" on the
part of historians and philosophers regarding other research
programs and traditions in evolutionary biology. In order to
acknowledge this shift, the papers in this book have been arranged
on the basis of two main threads: Part I: A perspective that views
Darwinism as either being originally pluralistic or having acquired
such a pluralistic nature through modifications and borrowings over
time. Part II: A perspective blurring the boundaries between
non-Darwinian and Darwinian traditions, either by contending that
Darwinism itself was never quite as Darwinian as previously
assumed, or that non-Darwinian traditions took on board various
Darwinian components, when not fertilizing Darwinism directly.
Between a Darwinism reaching out to other research programs and
non-Darwinian programs reaching out to Darwinism, the least that
can be said is that this interweaving of intellectual threads blurs
the historiographical field. This volume aims to open vital new
avenues for approaching and reflecting on the development of
evolutionary biology.
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