Defining Darwinism.

Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci

Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, United States.

Published: March 2011

Evolutionary theory seems to lend itself to all sorts of misunderstanding. In this paper I strive to decrease such confusions, for example, between Darwinism and Darwinians, propositions and people, organisms and individuals, species as individuals versus species as classes, homologies and homoplasies, and finally essences versus histories.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2010.11.009DOI Listing

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