The development of Darwin's theory : natural history, natural theology, and natural selection, 1838-1859 / Dov Ospovat.

  • Ospovat, Dov.
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1995, ©1981
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    Notes to pp. 145-9 74 See the discussion in Maurice Mandelbaum, History, Man, fi Reason, pp. 41-9- 75 Von Baer, Entwickelungsgeschichte, 1:263-4; Das Allgemeinste Gesetz der Natur in aller Entwickelung, 1:71. 76 Owen, Limbs, pp. 84-6; Milne Edwards, Introduction à la Zoologie Générale, pp. v-vi. 77 See the suggestive remarks of Temkin, German Concepts of Ontogeny and History, p. 246. Though Owen did not openly advocate descent before 1859, his views led others to suppose he believed in it. See, e.g., Leonard G. Wilson, ed.. Sir Charles Lyell's Scientific Journals on the Species Question, p. 241. 6. Darwin and the branching conception 1 E. S. Russell, Form and Function, p. 247. 2 Ernst Mayr, Animal Species and Evolution, pp. 595-601; David L. Hull, The Metaphysics of Evolution, p. 325. 3 On my theory an 'Exemplar' is no more wanted than to account for the likeness of members of one Family (DAR 205.5:143, notes on William Whewell's Of the Plurality of Worlds [read by Darwin in May 1854]). 4 Darwin's Library, Richard Owen, On the Nature of Limbs. Darwin subse¬ quently added: I follow him that there is a created archetype, the parent of its class. 5 Cf. Russell, Form and Function, pp. 216, 230, 232. 6 В notebook, p. 206; С notebook, pp. 51-2; E notebook, p. 89. 7 DAR 74:112V. See also MLD, 1:415; and DAR 205.1:47, dated March 1846. 8 Origin, pp. 438-9. 9 Charles Darwin, A Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripedia, 2:34-40; A Monograph on the Fossil Lepadidae, p. 48. On Darwin's cirripede work see Mary P. Winsor, Barnacle Larvae in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 305-7; see also Michael T. Ghiselin and Linda Jaffe, Phylogenetic Classification in Darwin's Monograph on the Sub-ClcLSS Cirripedia. 10 Russell, perceptive as usual, remarked long ago that the evidence from morphology probably contributed greatly to the success of Darwin's theory {Form and Function, p. 238). See also George Gaylord Simpson, Anatomy and Morphology. 11 Asa Gray, Darwiniana, p. 237. On the background to Gray's remark see James R. Moore, The Post-Darwinian Controversies, pp. 269-80. 12 LLD, 2:367. 13 My theory unites these two grand classes of views, he wrote in March 1847 (DAR 72:161). It is important always to remember that for the naturalists of Darwin's generation teleology usually refers not to the mere idea of purpose, but rather to a particular approach to biological explanation. 14 DAR 205.5:143. 15 Origin, p. 206. 260