CONTINGENCE AND TREE-LIKE REPRESENTATION: DARWIN FROM THE 1OTEBOOKS TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES
CONTINGENCE ET REPRÉSENTATION ARBORESCENTE : LE CHEMINEMENT DE DARWIN DES LES OTEBOOKS JUSQU'À LA PREMIÈRE ÉDITION DE L'ORIGINE DES ESPÈCES

Michael A. Soubbotnik
2017 Studia Romanica Posnaniensia  
This study attempts to show how Darwin's 1otebooks provide evidence that the author of the Origin of the Species moved further and further away from various versions of a "system of nature" based on some complex, abstract, finalized order, by combining empirical testing and shifts in the schematic representation of the relations between taxonomic categories.
doi:10.14746/strop.2017.444.007 fatcat:qvnsu6kos5dmfhvywbikscytem