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In a valuable article on “the theories to work by” that Darwin formulated from 1835 to 1838 to account for the origination and extinction of species in nature,1 David Kohn gave an impressive panorama of Darwin’s intellectual development during that period. This work, which paid meticulous attention to Darwin’s scientific theorizing, is the most accurate and reliable account of Darwin’s views regarding adaptation, variations, and speciation before coming to Malthus, and shed new light on the Malthusian impact.
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David Kohn, “Theories to Work By: Rejected Theories, Reproduction, and Darwin’s Path to Natural Selection,” Studies in History of Biology4 (1980): 67–170.
S. S. Schweber, “Darwin and the Political Economists: Divergence of Character,” J. History of Biology13 (1980): 195–289.
Howard E. Gruber, “Cognitive Psychology, Scientific Creativity and the Case Study Method,” in: On Scientific Discovery, ed. M. D. Grmck, R. S. Cohen and G. Cimino (Dordrecht/Holland: Reidel 1980), pp. 295–322.
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Schweber, S.S. (1986). On Darwin’s Principle of Divergence A Comment. In: Ullmann-Margalit, E. (eds) The Kaleidoscope of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 94. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5496-0_12
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