Ontogeny and Phylogeny (book) | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis & critique of Ontogeny and Phylogeny (book).

Ontogeny and Phylogeny (book) | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis & critique of Ontogeny and Phylogeny (book).
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SOURCE: Gieryn, Thomas F. “The Evolution of Evolution.” Contemporary Sociology 8, no. 1 (January 1979): 22-4.

In the following review of Ontogeny and Phylogeny and Ever since Darwin, Gieryn argues that both books address the use of analogy in developing scientific theories and that the latter volume is especially useful for “sociologists of science.”

Could a specialist in West Indian land snails have much to say of interest to sociologists? A decided yes, if he is a generalist in paleontology and evolutionary biology, Professor of Geology at Harvard and member of its departments of biology and history of science and, not incidentally, Stephen Jay Gould.

Ever since Darwin is a collection of essays which first appeared in Natural History, and takes up such questions as why a fly would want to eat its mother from inside, how a clam can mount a fish on its rear end, and why we should...

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