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BSC (biological species concept),
177–190
criticism of, 179–182
definition of, 177–178
difficulty applying, 181–183
variants of, 184
Buffon, George Louis, 16, 101, 161, 162
Campbell, J.H., 63
Cartesian philosophy, 2, 23
Cartesianism, 17
causa finalis, 23
Chambers, Robert, 161
chance, role of, 91–92
chronospecies, 183–184
cladogenesis, 121
classifications (species), 160–161
common descent, 100–102, 161, 162
Darwin’s theory of, 87
compositionism, 75
connectability, 78
cosmic teleology, 59–60
Critique of Judgment (Kant), 16, 24,
90–91
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 1–2
culling, 134
cytology, studies of, 102
Darwin, Charles
common descent, 100–102, 161–162
contributions, 85–86
evolution as such, 100
five theories of evolution, 97–114
gradualism, 103–105
influence on modern thought, 83–95
multiplication of species, 105–109
natural selection, 109–112
natural selection theory, 31
paradigm, 98–114, 128–129
physicalist ideas of, 26
secular science and, 84
theories, acceptance of, 112–114
Darwinian revolution, 84–85, 163–166
Darwinism
acceptance of, 117
maturation of, 117–130
neo-Darwinism vs., 129–130
of the present, 129–130
usages of the term, 117–121
Darwin’s method, 93–95
Das Kapital (Marx), 83
Davis, B., 51
Dawkins, R., 58, 144, 152
Democritus, 40
derivability, 78
Descartes, Ren
´
e, 12, 22
Descent of Man, The, (Darwin), 138
determinism, 27, 91–92
Diderot, Denis, 161
disciplinary matrix, 159–160
divergence, principle of, 98
Dobzhansky
regarding evolution, 85
second synthesis, 122–123
synthesis, 123–124
downward classification, 160
Driesch, Hans, 17, 22
Drosophila (fruit flies), 120, 139
Einstein, Albert, 15
inanimate nature and, 83–84
elan vital, 43
emergence, 74–77
Emergent Evolution (Morgan), 74
epistemological progress, 168
essentialism, 26–27, 88
criticism of, 27
evolution, 29
Darwinian, 34
Evolution (journal), 127
Evolution, the Modern Synthesis (Huxley),
124
evolutionary biology, 161–168
evolutionary synthesis, 123
extraterrestrials
believers in, 209
228