Although evolutionary theory can be regarded as a certain universal mediator that has embraced more and more domains of science since its early days and up to nowadays, each branch of biological science has developed in this context with its own specifications. The latter, either through hindering or promoting, have influenced the local scientifi schools of evolutionary biology and, eventually, rendered them as national developments. We hold that the Darwinian theories interrelated with national exploratory traditions in such a way that eventually there emerged the conceptual body created as an alloy of a metatheoretical structure with the “purely empirical” theoretical positions such as the theory of natural selection. We will also show that through the case of the German-language research tradition in evolutionary biology, and analyse this tradition comparing it to other major ones in evolutionary biology such as the Russian and English-speaking evolutionism. The issue of specifi influences constituting the
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationФилософия истории философии.
Subtitle of host publicationСборник научных статей
PublisherИздательство Санкт-Петербургского университета
Pages241-257
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Bernhard Rensch, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary biology, German evolutionary biology, Hans Böker, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, metaparadigms, national exploratory traditions, Бернхард Ренш, Ганс Бекер, Иоганн Вольфганг фон Гете, метапарадигма, национальные исследовательские традиции, немецкая эволюционная биология, эволюционная биология, Эрнст Геккель

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