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Historians of science have pointed to essentialist beliefs about species as major impediments to the discovery of natural selection - Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal

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There is an extensive literature on essentialism in the natural sciences, including recent work by Brian Ellis, Joseph Laporte and others arguing that it is time to reintroduce the notion of essentialism. This follows the raising of essentialism in the philosophy of language by Hilary Putnam in the 1970s. (Evolving Thoughts)

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