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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 ...
Dynamics,Symmetry,and the Levels of Selection
levels of selection natural selection group selection evolutionary process dynamics symmetry symmetry transformation
2016/6/13
Most attempts to answer the question of whether populations of groups can undergo natural selection focus on properties of the groups themselves rather than the dynamics of the population. Those appro...
Teleología Naturalizada:Los conceptos de funcion,aptitud y adaptacion en la Teoría de la Seleccion Natural (Naturalized Teleology:The concepts of function,fitness and adaptation in Natural Selection Theory)
adaptación aptitud diseno funcion teleología Teoria de la Selección Natural adaptation design fitness function teleology Natural Selection Theory
2016/6/12
En la Teoría de la Selección Natural, el concepto de función biológica debe suponerse para delimitar el concepto de aptitud; y éste debe suponerse para delimitar el concepto de adaptación y también pa...
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...
Darwin's Explanation of Races by Means of Sexual Selection
Descent of Man Adrian Desmond female choice vs. male choice James Moore race sexual selection
2016/5/30
In Darwin's Sacred Cause, Adrian Desmond and James Moore contend that "Darwin would put his utmost into sexual selection because the subject intrigued him, no doubt, but also for a deeper reason: the ...
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...
The Paradox of Sexual Reproduction and the Levels of Selection:Can Sociobiology Shed a Light?
Evolutionary maintenance of sexual reproduction group selection inclusive fitness kin selection multilevel selection sociobiology
2016/5/30
The rejection of group selection in the 1960s left the evolutionary maintenance of sex bereft of its previous explanations and turned it into an anomaly or paradox. While the levels of selection debat...
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...
How Do Natural Selection and Random Drift Interact?
"natural selection" fitness probability drift
2011/9/6
One controversy about the existence of so called evolutionary forces such as natural selection and random genetic drift concerns the sense in which such "forces" can be said to interact. In this paper...
The purpose of this paper is to propose an extension to Lee Smolin's hypothesis that our own universe belongs to a population of universes which have evolved by natural selection. Smolin's hypothesis ...
Coherence, Consistency, and Cohesion: Clade Selection in Okasha and Beyond.
Cohesion Consistency Coherence
2008/4/22
Samir Okasha argues that clade selection is an incoherent concept, because the relation that constitutes clades is such that it renders parent-offspring (reproduction) relations between clades impossi...
Self-Induced Selection: A New Approach to Quantum Decoherence
Decoherence Quantum Mechanics
2008/4/22
According to Zurek, decoherence is a process resulting from the interaction between a quantum system and its environment; this process singles out a preferred set of states, usually called “pointer ba...
Thinking About Evolutionary Mechanisms: Natural Selection
mechanisms natural selection evolution
2008/4/21
This paper explores whether natural selection, a putative evolutionary mechanism, and a main one at that, can be characterized on either of the two dominant conceptions of mechanism, due to Glennan an...