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How to Read Ameghino’s Filogenia?

A Historiographical Question

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Handbook of the Historiography of Latin American Studies on the Life Sciences and Medicine

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Abstract

The studies on the history of the science made in Latin America are usually disinterested in epistemological questions. The analysis of the conceptual aspects that rule scientific developments is left in the background, and the discussions and reflections that these conceptual questions generate among the researchers involved in such developments are seldom analyzed. It would seem that this analysis lacks relevance; as if those discussions and reflections could only be the distorted echo of reflections and discussions already better developed elsewhere. A clear example of this is the relatively little importance given to Filogenia: that ambitious programmatic work in which Florentino Ameghino explains the fundamental bases of Evolutionary Paleontology. This negligence not only conspired against a correct understanding and appreciation of Ameghino’s own figure but also prevented this work from being used as a document able to facilitate a clear comprehension of the way in which the Darwinian Revolution impacted Paleontology and Natural History in general.

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Caponi, G. (2022). How to Read Ameghino’s Filogenia?. In: Barahona, A. (eds) Handbook of the Historiography of Latin American Studies on the Life Sciences and Medicine. Historiographies of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74723-7_5

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