 Regarding the historical background to Kant’s views on natural teleology, specifically regarding the biology of his time, McLaughlin 1990 remains an excellent guide; further work on this topic includes M. Fisher 2014, Goy 2014a, Zuckert 2014a. The reception of Kant’s biological work is discussed in Lenoir’s influential 1980, which argues that Kant’s ideas played a major role in shaping German biology in the 1790s. Lenoir’s view is challenged in Richards 2000 and in Zammito 2012, which is also a useful source of references to literature on the topic; Zammito’s (2018) study of the origin of German biology contains a wealth of information about the history and reception of Kant’s views on biology. Huneman (2006) discusses the influence of Kant’s views on French biology in the nineteenth century.