| Journal: | Ludus vitalis |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000406049 |
| ISSN: | 1133-5165 |
| Authors: | Poreau, Brice1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, Rhone-Alpes. Francia |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Volumen: | 20 |
| Number: | 38 |
| Pages: | 53-66 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Francés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Histórico, analítico |
| English abstract | In the book entitled "Les commensaux et les parasites le regne animal", published in 1875, Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden (1809-1894), a Belgian zoologist, put forward three different biological associations: parasitism, mutualism and commensalism. The last one considers an association with two different species: one partner benefits, while the other neither benefits nor is harmed, in a kind of stable equilibrium. In the first definition given by Van Beneden in the 1860's, the language style is not the same as we use in this definition. It is clearly an anthropomorphic point of view. Commensalism was seen then as a moral concept. In this article, we want to show the history of commensalism that transits from a "moral" concept to a scientific and biological one during the twentieth century |
| Disciplines: | Filosofía |
| Keyword: | Doctrinas y corrientes filosóficas, Filosofía de la ciencia, Filosofía de la biología, Conceptos, Cientificidad, Siglo XX, Moral, Comensalismo |
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