Contingence and tree-like representation: Darwin from the 1otebooks to the first edition of the Origin of the Species
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Keywords

Darwin
1otebooks
representation
divergence
selection
contingence

How to Cite

Soubbotnik, M. A. (2018). Contingence and tree-like representation: Darwin from the 1otebooks to the first edition of the Origin of the Species. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 44(4), 95–115. https://doi.org/10.14746/strop.2017.444.007

Abstract

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.
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