@article{e4ed8f01a69c47c791b1a9339ed382f2,
title = "Pattern as observation: Darwin{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteleft}great facts{\textquoteright} of geographical distribution",
abstract = "Among philosophical analyses of Darwin{\textquoteright}s Origin, a standard view says the theory presented there had no concrete observational consequences against which it might be checked. I challenge this idea with a new analysis of Darwin{\textquoteright}s principal geographical distribution observations and how they connect to his common ancestry hypothesis.",
author = "Casey Helgeson",
note = "Funding Information: Thanks to Matt Barker, John Basl, David Baum, Malcolm Forster, Dan Hausman, Daniel Liu, Josh Mund, Lynn Nyhart, Emi Okayasu, Clinton Packman, Trevor Pearce, Megan Raby, Bill Saucier, Elliott Sober, Elena Spitzer, Michael Titelbaum, and Peter Vranas. Also to participants in Malcolm Forster's philosophy of science graduate seminar and Lynn Nyhart's history and philosophy of biology reading group at the University of Wisconsin?Madison and to audiences at Tilburg University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Wisconsin?Madison, and the Celebration of Darwin conference at Virginia Tech. Comments from two referees also helped me to improve the paper. This work was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a Visiting Fellowship at the Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS).",
year = "2017",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s13194-016-0164-y",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "7",
pages = "337--351",
journal = "European Journal for Philosophy of Science",
issn = "1879-4912",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "2",
}