History without Time: Buffon's Natural History as a Nonmathematical Physique
- Thierry Hoquet
- PhilosophyIsis
- 1 March 2010
While “natural history” is practically synonymous with the name of Buffon, the term itself has been otherwise overlooked by historians of science. This essay attempts to address this omission by…
Darwin teleologist? Design in The orchids.
- Thierry Hoquet
- ArtComptes rendus. Biologies
- 1 February 2010
ANIMAL INDIVIDUALS: A PLEA FOR A NOMINALISTIC TURN IN ANIMAL STUDIES?
- Thierry Hoquet
- Art
- 1 December 2013
This paper focuses on the concept of “animal individuals” and puts forward a nominalistic approach. Nominalism is an ontological thesis (only individuals exist), but also an epistemological claim:…
Defining "Development".
- T. Pradeu, L. Laplane, M. Vervoort
- PsychologyCurrent Topics in Developmental Biology
- 2016
Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection
- Thierry Hoquet
- Psychology
- 2015
Human, almost human: how many human species are there?
- Thierry Hoquet
- BiologyBulletins et Mémoires de la Société d…
- 31 July 2022
Utility vs Beauty: Darwin, Wallace and the Subsequent History of the Debate on Sexual Selection
- Thierry Hoquet, M. Levandowsky
- Psychology, Biology
- 2015
We examine the origins of the disagreement of Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin regarding the significance and mechanism of sexual selection and relate this to differences in their views of…
Bateman (1948): rise and fall of a paradigm?
- Thierry Hoquet
- PsychologyAnimal Behaviour
- 18 January 2020
Biologization of Race and Racialization of the Human
- Thierry Hoquet
- Sociology
- 24 April 2014
Translating natural selection : true concept, but false term?
- Thierry Hoquet
- Biology
- 21 April 2011
A historical and philosophical perspective on the term “ natural selection ” in some European languages (mostly French and German) is adopted to emphasize the power of words in science.
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