The unity of type in Buffon’s natural history
In the Natural History of Buffon, not only the general resemblance of the animals, but also their most important differences, are explained by the general principles and the particular conditions that ruled their constitution. In some cases, it is true, unity of descent and degeneration could explai...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Sociedade Brasileira de História da Ciência (SBHC) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência (Online) |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.rbhciencia.emnuvens.com.br:article/383 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://rbhciencia.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/383 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Buffon G degeneration unity of descent unity of type degeneración filiación común unidad de tipo |
| Sumario: | In the Natural History of Buffon, not only the general resemblance of the animals, but also their most important differences, are explained by the general principles and the particular conditions that ruled their constitution. In some cases, it is true, unity of descent and degeneration could explain those structurally secondary resemblances and differences that exist among the members of a family derived from the same original stock. Nevertheless, in Buffon´s system, this bounded transformism is just a simple secondary hypothesis used to complete an understanding of the history of the life that, although purely materialistic, works without the tree of life conceived by Darwin and without the march of nature imagined by Lamarck. |
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