Lequin, Mathilde (2018) La révolution paléobiologique a-t-elle eu lieu en paléoanthropologie ? Lato Sensu, revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences, 5 (1). pp. 26-36. ISSN 2295-8029
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Abstract
Paleontology underwent a “paleobiological revolution” during the twentieth century (Sepkoski and Ruse, 2009), by becoming a theoretical science and a part of evolutionary biology. Although the history of paleoanthropology reflects a similar change, the paleobiological revolution is still incomplete in this field. This article explains why the change is only partial. We identify empirical limits, pertaining to the distinctive features of the fossil record in paleoanthropology, as well as epistemological limits, linked with several different understandings of what paleobiology means. Finally, we demonstrate that there is a need to consider paleoanthropology as being not only a branch of paleobiology, but also an anthropology. By doing so, it is possible to assess properly the paleobiological change in the field of human evolution.
La paléontologie a connu au cours du XXe siècle une « révolution paléobiologique » (Sepkoski et Ruse, 2009), en se constituant comme science théorique et intégrée à la biologie de l’évolution. Si l’histoire de la paléoanthropologie reflète un tournant similaire, la révolution paléobiologique reste, à plusieurs égards, inachevée dans cette discipline. Cet article analyse les causes de cet inachèvement, en identifiant des limites empiriques, relatives aux particularités du registre fossile de la paléoanthropologie, mais aussi des limites épistémologiques, rapportées à différentes conceptions de la paléobiologie en jeu dans cette discipline. Nous montrons enfin qu’il est nécessaire de prendre en considération la spécificité anthropologique de la discipline pour apprécier la particularité du tournant paléobiologique dans le champ de l’évolution humaine.
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| Keywords: | Human evolution ; paleontology ; paleoanthropology ; paleobiology ; punctuated equilibria ; Évolution humaine ; paléontologie ; paléoanthropologie ; paléobiologie ; équilibres ponctués | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Anthropology Specific Sciences > Archaeology General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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| Depositing User: | Lato Sensu | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2018 13:47 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 25 May 2019 17:33 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 15128 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Lato Sensu, revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences | ||||||
| Publisher: | Société de philosophie des sciences | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/latosensu/artic... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.20416/lsrsps.v5i1.5 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Anthropology Specific Sciences > Archaeology General Issues > Philosophers of Science |
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| Date: | September 2018 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 26-36 | ||||||
| Volume: | 5 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2295-8029 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15128 |
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