Article ID: CBB000932659

Savage Selection: Analogy and Elision in On the Origin of Species (2009)

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Darwin famously built the ground-breaking argument of On the Origin of Species out of an analogy between artificial selection (`breeding') and what he called `nature's power of selection' -- or, more famously, `natural selection'. For years, historians of science have debated the origins of this analogy and philosophers of science have disputed exactly how well it works. But is Darwin's argument really an analogy? A closer look at what the world-travelling naturalist of the Beagle has to say about selection among `savages' opens a more complicated story.

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Authors & Contributors
White, Roger M.
Robert Ready
Michael Dee
Wilmer, Clive
Wilner, Eduardo
van Wyhe, John
Concepts
Evolution
Natural selection
Metaphors; analogies
Darwinism
Biology
Philosophy
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
Tasmania (Australia)
New South Wales (Australia)
England
Malay; Malaysia
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