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| Author(s): |
Carlos Francisco Gerencsez Geraldino
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências |
| Defense date: | 2016-11-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Antonio Carlos Vitte;
Nélio Marco Vincenzo Bizzo;
Francisco de Assis Gonçalves Junior;
Marcos Bernardino de Carvalho;
Raul Reis Amorim
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| Advisor: | Antonio Carlos Vitte |
| Abstract | |
In order to contribute to the history of geographical thought and specifically to the epistemology of biogeography, this research sought to understand the dimension of the geographical factors of reality acquired by the theoretical elaboration process of the evolution of living beings systematized in the work On origins of species by means of natural selection by Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882). So our interest was focused on the double and complementary aspect of the presence of geography in his evolutionary theory, namely the roles of geographical environment and landforms. How the geographical environment participated in the transmutation process formulated by Darwin? How territorial discontinuity offered by landforms was present in his proposal for speciation? And how are these two concepts have changed in the passage of his intellectual maturity to finally be published in the Origin of Species? Such were the questions that guided our research. The methodology adopted for reading the sources weighed the factors externalist and internalist of scientific work. The achieved results confirmed the hypothesis verified: geography acted decisively in evolutionary theory proposed by Charles Darwin (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/19824-0 - Geography and ontology in Charles Darwin: contribution to the epistemological foundations of biogeography |
| Grantee: | Carlos Francisco Gerencsez Geraldino |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |