Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism¶
Sober, E. (1980). Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism. Philosophy of Science, 47(3), 350-383.
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Primes¶
- Essentialism
- … or cluster-concept categorizations; chemical essences (atomic number for elements, molecular structure for compounds — well-grounded empirically); biological species concepts (largely anti-essentialist: phylogenetic species, biological species, genetic species, ecological species — each avoid essentialist grounding
This sourceArgues that Darwinian population thinking displaced essentialist explanations of variation and that gradualism makes species line-drawing impossible — directly supports the species anti-essentialism claim. REPLACES the originally cited 'The Nature of Selection' (which is Sober's 1984 MIT Press book, not the 1980 work and not the source of the species-essentialism argument).
- … or cluster-concept categorizations; chemical essences (atomic number for elements, molecular structure for compounds — well-grounded empirically); biological species concepts (largely anti-essentialist: phylogenetic species, biological species, genetic species, ecological species — each avoid essentialist grounding
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