Branching Darwinisms: The Rise and Fall of the Eclipse Metaphor in the Historiography of Evolutionary Biology
暫譯: 分支達爾文主義：進化生物學史中日蝕隱喻的興起與衰落
Ceccarelli, David
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This book offers a meta-historical analysis of the "eclipse of Darwinism" narrative in evolutionary biology. It examines major historiographical labels - such as "Darwinism," "anti-Darwinian," "eclipse of Darwinism," and "modern synthesis" - highlighting their varying uses in past and current historiography. This analysis not only invites a rethinking of how evolutionary biology's development is periodized but also clarifies how historical narratives shape modern scientific practice by revealing the link between scientific practice and historical interpretation. Using a historical and epistemological perspective, the volume explores both the history of the "eclipse" period and how evolutionary biologists and historians have written that history. Its methodology integrates the study of historiographical traditions with analyses of scientific writings, popular accounts, and personal correspondence among scholars. The book concludes that the "eclipse" metaphor has lost heuristic value and that dividing biology into pre- and post-synthetic phases is misleading. Darwinism neither entered the 1880s-1920s as a unified program nor simply fragmented into isolated strands. Instead, evolutionary studies comprised diverse traditions that branched out and progressively specialized.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書提供了一個關於進化生物學中「達爾文主義的消退」敘事的元歷史分析。它檢視了主要的歷史學標籤，例如「達爾文主義」、「反達爾文主義」、「達爾文主義的消退」和「現代綜合」，並突顯它們在過去和當前歷史學中的不同用法。這項分析不僅邀請人們重新思考進化生物學發展的時期劃分，還澄清了歷史敘事如何塑造現代科學實踐，揭示了科學實踐與歷史詮釋之間的聯繫。該書從歷史和認識論的角度探討了「消退」時期的歷史，以及進化生物學家和歷史學家如何撰寫這段歷史。其方法論整合了歷史學傳統的研究，並分析了科學著作、大眾報導和學者之間的個人通信。書中結論認為「消退」隱喻已失去啟發價值，將生物學劃分為合成前和合成後的階段是誤導性的。達爾文主義並未以統一的計劃進入1880年代至1920年代，也並非簡單地分裂為孤立的分支。相反，進化研究包含了多樣的傳統，這些傳統逐漸分支並專業化。
作者簡介
David Ceccarelli earned his PhD in Historical, Social, and Philosophical Sciences at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata." He is currently post-doctoral Research Fellow at Roma Tre University, and has taught History of Science at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and the University of Florence. He has been a Research Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (2015-2016) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Linda Hall Library (2022-2023). David is a historian of science whose research interests range from the history and historiography of evolutionary biology, the history of evolutionary social theories, and the relationship between psychology and evolutionism, to the visual history of science. His current research focuses on the place of historical narratives in evolutionary biology and the use of historiographical categories in modern scientific practice.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
大衛·切卡雷利（David Ceccarelli）在羅馬「托爾維爾加塔」大學獲得歷史、社會和哲學科學的博士學位。他目前是羅馬三大學的博士後研究員，並曾在羅馬「托爾維爾加塔」大學和佛羅倫斯大學教授科學史。他曾於2015年至2016年擔任科學、技術與醫學歷史聯盟的研究員，並於2022年至2023年擔任琳達·霍爾圖書館的博士後研究員。大衛是一位科學史學家，其研究興趣涵蓋進化生物學的歷史與歷史學、進化社會理論的歷史、心理學與進化論之間的關係，以及科學的視覺歷史。他目前的研究重點是歷史敘事在進化生物學中的地位以及歷史學類別在現代科學實踐中的使用。
