Resumen
Charles Darwin publicó siete ediciones de El origen de las especies durante su vida y, partiendo de la premisa de que este libro es de naturaleza filosófica, aquí se analiza el capítulo IV de dicha obra para buscar los elementos que subyacen a la explicación de la selección natural a lo largo de las siete ediciones. Utilizando los criterios establecidos por Leibniz en su Disertación sobre el estilo filosófico de Nizolio, se determinó que la calidad filosófica en la primera edición es intermedia y aumentó en las ediciones siguientes, principalmente en la tercera en comparación con la segunda.
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