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One of the most influential interpretations of the history and philosophy of science was that of Thomas Kuhn, whose book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), introduced the term “paradigm” into popular vocabulary. In Kuhn’s understanding of science, science constructs a world view, or paradigm, that shapes the way we view the world and conduct or pursuit of science. When major theories are discarded and replaced, we have rejected one set of assumptions for another and undergone a revolution in thought. The most significant “paradigm shift” that has taken place in the biological sciences was the Darwinian Revolution, which introduced not only evolutionary thinking, but also the scientific method.
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Langdon, J.H. (2016). Case Study 1. The Darwinian Paradigm: An Evolving World View. In: The Science of Human Evolution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41585-7_1
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