Perfect adaptation and teleological explanation : approaches to the problem of the history of life in the mid-nineteenth century / Dov Ospovat.
Abstract:
"In this paper I intend first to examine the shift away from teleological explanation and then to sketch briefly how recognition of the shift gives us a useful means of distinguishing among the theoretical views of mid-19th-century naturalists, a means which may serve as a suitable replacement for the traditional evolutionist-creationist dichotomy, which has perhaps obscured more than it has explained."
Studies in history of biology Vol. 2 (1978), p. 33-56