I guess this must have been what Ernst Mayr MEANT by "population thinking" but for me was just a paper on Salamander Distributions in the Carolinas etc while Ernst was not rigorous enough in his public discussion IN same regarding the philosophical approach. So for instance he chasitized me for "typological thinking" when questioned on using a unique numeric sign for individual attachment WITHIN a given population (using the divergence of some series segemented so as to incorporate gain said thought etc etc) but this line of re-questioning would not have been able to seperate (P.)Kitcher's vs Brad's ideas on mathematical biology.
There is a little (not) inflated notion of Faraday's that only "bipolarity" and not multipolarity existed (Physiologically) which I have always wondered if that an not a simple pair was responsible for the remanded "couple" you indicated prior to any force being calculated.