JF: Getting into this a bit late, but I did want to underscore that there has long been a vaguely Platonic current in contemporary biology (often coming from those with a more developmental or “evo-devo” orientation) that, if not explicitly anti-Darwinian, certainly sees itself as opposing the excesses of strong adaptationists (think a cartoon version of Richard Dawkins, who is already kind of a cartoon at this point). D’Arcy Thompson is probably the most famous exponent, but you can see the same current in, say, Turing’s work on pattern formation, Stu Kauffman’s work on random Boolean networks, etc. Anyone drawing attention to “order for free,” often with an emphasis on the role of physical principles, self-organization, and deep mathematical structures. Mike Levin has recently come out hard in this direction (see for example Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | Platonic space: where cognitive and morphological patterns come from (besides genetics and environment) and we’re planning to chat soon about the (re) emergence of the Platonic paradigm in science.