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Putting Process and Product Conceptions of Natural Selection and Genetic Drift to the Test
natural selection genetic drift process product outcome causation
2016/6/15
This paper argues for two claims. First, despite a persistent appearance to the contrary in the philosophy of biology literature, the question of whether natural selection and genetic drift should be ...
Natural Selection and Causal Productivity
Stuart Glennan Wesley Salmon natural selection causal production mark transmission individuality reductionism causal process causal propagation populations population level
2016/6/15
In the recent philosophical literature, two questions have arisen concerning the status of natural selection: 1) Is it a population-level phenomenon, or is it an organism-level phenomenon? 2) Is it a ...
From Survivors to Replicators:Evolution by Natural Selection Revisited
Evolution by natural selection Replicator individual-based models Natural selection Diachronic
2016/6/12
For evolution by natural selection to occur it is classically admitted that the three ingredients ofcvariation, difference in fitness and heredity are necessary and sufficient. In this paper, I show u...
How to read “heritability” in the recipe approach to natural selection
heritability recipe approach natural selection
2016/6/12
There are two ways evolution by natural selection (ENS) is conceptualized in the literature. One provides a ‘recipe’ for ENS incorporating three ingredients: variation, differences in fitness and heri...
Broken Mechanisms:Function,Pathology,and Natural Selection
Mechanism Function Pathology Natural Selection
2016/5/30
The following describes one distinct sense of ‘mechanism’ which is prevalent in biology and biomedicine and which has important epistemic benefits. According to this sense, mechanisms are defined by t...
Defining dysfunction: natural selection, design, and drawing a line
Biology Diagnosis Distribution Function Tests Medicine Natural Selection Probability Theory Teleology Variation
2014/11/17
Accounts of the concepts of function and dysfunction have not adequately explained what factors determine the line between low-normal function and dysfunction. I call the challenge of doing so the lin...