Thom, Gould y la tradición morfológica en la ciencia
ISSN: 0212-6192
Année de publication: 2001
Titre de la publication: En memoria de Eugenio Coseriu
Número: 37-40
Pages: 227-262
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Contextos
Résumé
After the death of Stephen J. Gould and René Thom, this paper is written in remembrance of their contribution to biological theory from their own theoretical outlooks, with especial attention to their support of the morphological tradition within biological thought in a century dominated by the evolutionary synthesis. Thom's contribution is reviewed in connection with the employment of mathematical models to analyse morphogenesis and also to the embedding of mathematics into the very biological reality. Owing to his condition of a first rank evolutionary theorist, Gould review goes beyond his relationship with the morphological tradition up to the main points of his view of evolution as biologist, historian and philosopher of science.