Charles Darwin and the fossil mammals of the Beagle trip

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Leonardo Laura Salgado

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Some characteristics of the understanding that, on the concept of “constructivism”, obtains a set of students of the sciences It has been stated that the fossil remains found by Darwin in South America were decisive in the building of his theory. However, the author of On the Origin of Species modified his interpretation on those remains at the same time as his knowledge did, or simply according to his interests or needs. In this sense, the case of the Toxodon is very illustrative: this is interpreted as an example of a form belonging to a type identical to another living one (the capybara or carpincho), in the same area (in the Journal of Researches, of 1845), like a link among pachyderms, rodents, ungulates and whales (also in the Journal of Researches), or simply a extinct form, that coexisted with living species (in all editions of On The Origin of Species).

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Charles Darwin and the fossil mammals of the Beagle trip. (2009). Journal of Biology Education, 12(2), (pp. 44-48). https://doi.org/10.59524/2344-9225.v12.n2.22273
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Leonardo Laura Salgado

Conicet-Inibioma, Museo de Geología y Paleontología, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina.

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Charles Darwin and the fossil mammals of the Beagle trip. (2009). Journal of Biology Education, 12(2), (pp. 44-48). https://doi.org/10.59524/2344-9225.v12.n2.22273