Darwin, domestic breeding and artificial selection

Endeavour

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 106-109

  Richards, Richard A ^a,b,c  

^a Philosophy Dept   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0006300050     PISSN: 01609327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-9327(98)01135-1     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. See, for instance. Ruse, M. (1979) The Darwinian Revolution, p. 178, University of Chicago Press;
2. Recker, D. (1987) Philos. Sci. 54, 166; for others who interpret Darwin in this way,
3. Richards, R.A. (1997) Stud. Hist. Philos. Sci. 28, 75-76
4. For this and other responses by Darwin's contemporaries, see Hull, D. (1973) Darwin and His Critics, Harvard University Press
5. Lyell, C. (1990) Principles of Geology. Vol. 2, p. 26, University of Chicago Press
6. These 1858 papers are reproduced in de Beer, G., ed. (1958) Evolution by Natural Selection, p. 268. Cambridge University Press.
7. Darwin, C. (Darwin, F., ed.) (1958) The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, p. 100, Dover
8. Darwin, F., ed. (1903) More Letters of Charles Darwin. Vol. I, p. 128, D. Appleton & Co.
9. In my paper cited in note 1 above, I argue that Darwin's reasoning is in conformity with inductive reasoning as he understood it.
10. In the Variation, Darwin tells us that he means by 'nature', simply 'the aggregate action and product of many laws'. [Darwin, C. (1988) The Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication, 2nd edn, in The Works of Charles Darwin, Vols 19 and 20 (Barren, P.H. and Freeman, R.B.. eds). Pickering and Chatto Ltd
11. Variation. Vol. 1. p. 3.
12. Variation, Vol. 2, pp. 398-399
13. Variation, Vol. 1. pp. 410-411
14. Variation, Vol. 2, pp. 208-209
15. For Darwin's discussion of the laws governing sterility, for instance, see Variation. Vol. 2, p. 149
16. Variation, Vol. 2, pp. 182-183
17. Variation, Vol. 2, p. 183
18. Darwin, C. (1964) On the Origin of Species (facsimile of the first edn). p. 38. Harvard University Press