Richard Owen's Vertebrate Archetype: Raison d'Être and Destiny of One of the Most Influential Models in the History of Biology

• Gustavo Andrés Caponi ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

     Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Principia: an international journal of epistemology, ISSN-e 1808-1711, Vol. 26, Nº. 1 (Models and Modeling in the Sciences), 2022, págs. 55-71
• Idioma: inglés
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  • El arquetipo vertebrado de richard owen: Razón de ser y destino de unos de los modelos másinfluyentes en la historia de la biología
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  • The vertebrate archetype outlined by Richard Owen in the mid-19th century wasa model conceived to guide the morphological analysis of living beings within the guidelinesdefined by the idea of a unit of composition when applied to the specific case of vertebrates.But here, in addition to analyzing the originalraison d’êtreof this archetype and its mode ofoperation within the epistemic context in which it effectively emerged, we will also alludeto the way in which this model could come to be considered, not as an idealization, or amethodologically operative abstraction, but as an approximation to a real entity that had tobe individualized and duly described.