2017
DOI: 10.1590/1809-43412017v14n3p001
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Is Natural Selection a Chimera? Reflections on the ‘Survival’ of a Principle

Abstract: My objective is to discuss the persistence of the notion of natural selection in the biological sciences, exploring the fact that: (1) this notion, just like the term culture in anthropology, is historically an inaugural concept in its particular scientific field, and, insofar as both possess a value of heuristic delimitation, both thus came to be considered as explanatory concepts, although today they may be more widely accepted as descriptive in kind; (2) this persistence seems to be equally linked to the fa… Show more

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