What is the approach to history or essentialism?Discuss

Paper 1 – ESSENTIALISM——-
– What is the approach to history or essentialism?
Essentialist history traces an unchanging, universal core element found in the
subject matter being examined.

Assume that ideas or disciplines are the same in all ages. = Essentialism

Paper 2 – “SEEKING NATURAL EXPLANATIONS FOR LIFE SPAWNS — MULTIPLE THEORIES OF EVOLUTION”

– see page 3 of the lecture notes in the powerpoint I provided “SciRel_12”