Exemplars, models and principles in classical genetics

Authors

  • Pablo Lorenzano Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; Programa Prioritario de Investigación ‘Filosofía e Historia de la Ciencia’

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-31662005000200002

Keywords:

Textbook, Biological theory, Classical genetics, Exemplar, Model, Principle, Fundamental law, Special law

Abstract

Taking as starting point the book of Sinnott and Dunn, Principles of genetics: an elementary text, with problems, that may be considered the first textbook of classical genetics in the Kuhnian sense, and the analyses of the structure of biomedical and/or biological theories carried out by Darden and Schaffner, I will discuss the problem of the existence of fundamental laws or guide-principles in biology, in the light of the examination of classical genetics accomplished with the instruments of the structuralist conception of theories.

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Published

2005-06-01

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How to Cite

Exemplars, models and principles in classical genetics . (2005). Scientiae Studia, 3(2), 185-203. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-31662005000200002