A succession of paradigms in ecology: Essentialism to materialism and probabilism
@article{Simberloff2004ASO, title={A succession of paradigms in ecology: Essentialism to materialism and probabilism}, author={Daniel Simberloff}, journal={Synthese}, year={2004}, volume={43}, pages={3-39} }
Lewontin (1974a), in his provocative essay ‘Darwin and Mendel — The Materialist Revolution,’ suggests that by the time On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, the notion of evolving species was already firmly established in both lay and academic circles. Embedding the evolutionary species concept in a matrix of new evolutionary thought in many areas of the arts, natural sciences, and social sciences during the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries, he points to a…
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