Mort ou persistance du darwinisme ? Regard d’un épistémologue |
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Authors: | Jean Gayon |
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Institution: | Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (UMR 8590 CNRS/Paris 1/ENS), université Paris-1–Panthéon Sorbonne, 13, rue du Four, 75006 Paris, France |
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Abstract: | The article examines why evolutionary biologists have been haunted by the question whether they are “Darwinian” or “non-Darwinian” ever since Darwin's Origin of species. Modern criticisms addressed to Darwinism are classified into two categories: those concerning Darwin's hypothesis of “descent with modification” and those addressed to the hypothesis of natural selection. In both cases, although the particular models that Darwin proposed for these two hypotheses have been significantly revised and expanded, Darwin's general framework has constrained and canalized evolutionary research, in the sense that it has settled an array of possible theoretical choices. Gould's changing attitudes regarding Darwinism is taken as a striking illustration of this interpretation. |
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