Definitivamente no estaba ahí: la ausencia de la teoría de la selección natural en sobre la tendencia de las variedades a apartarse indefinidamente del tipo original de Alfred Russel Wallace

Gustavo Caponi

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Definitively, it wasn’t there: not the theory of natural selection in Alfred Russel Wallace

Far from having diminished Darwin’s priority in the formulation of natural selection theory, Alfred Russel Wallace’s “On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type” supposes a way of reasoning that, besides being incompatible with that theory, does not carry us to Darwin’s principle of divergence. The fundamental limitation of Wallace’s argument was to consider that the formation of varieties did not deserve further explanations. His theory was just an explanation for the substitution of an original form by a derived variety, not an explanation of the proliferation of lineages.

Key words. Darwin, Wallace, Gayon, natural selection, principle of divergence, varieties, lineage.


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