THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION AS THEORETICAL HARMONY: Charles Darwin's harmonic path
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Darwin, Theory of Natural Selection, Evolution, BiologyAbstract
How does a theory impose itself in scientific circles? This article seeks to answer this question with the example of Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, using the procedure of comparing it to a new musical harmony that had to find ears prepared for its apprehension. In this sense, some of the strategies of Darwin and his collaborators to gain greater acceptance for the Theory of Evolution in the 19th century are discussed, as well as the accommodations that had to be made in the Darwinian text to face the scientific environment and the society of his time
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