In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his
theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for
this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with
artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how,
exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work – and some
suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are
embarrassingly weak. Drawing on new insights into the history of
analogical argumentation from the ancient Greeks onward, as well as
on in-depth studies of Darwin's public and private writings, this
book offers an original perspective on Darwin's argument, restoring
to view the intellectual traditions which Darwin took for granted
in arguing as he did. From this perspective come new appreciations
not only of Darwin's argument but of the metaphors based on it, the
range of wider traditions the argument touched upon, and its
legacies for science after the Origin.
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