Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 47 (3), 350-383
- https://doi.org/10.1086/288942
Abstract
Ernst Mayr has argued that Darwinian theory discredited essentialist modes of thought and replaced them with what he has called "population thinking". In this paper, I characterize essentialism as ...Keywords
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