Philosophy of Biology
What Is Evolvability? 169 structured selection, and frequency-dependent selection are conceptual tools that mark important aspec ...
170 Kim Sterelny More uniform environments allow cryptic genetic variation to survive unex- pressed; variation that may become i ...
What Is Evolvability? 171 that would form the combination have arisen in different populations. Population structure is relevan ...
172 Kim Sterelny its limited disparity. But just as there is middle-level theory of the sources and consequences of fitness diff ...
What Is Evolvability? 173 pirically. For the extent to which traits develop independently of one another is not an obvious featu ...
174 Kim Sterelny decision varies independently of another: whether the distinct elements are physi- cally unconnected, jointed o ...
What Is Evolvability? 175 the Fisherian model is not a good general account of the genotype-phenotype relation. Continuously var ...
176 Kim Sterelny Populations often find themselves on flat fitness landscapes near to but not on the slopes of incompatible loca ...
What Is Evolvability? 177 environmental contexts of specific lineages. The constraints on volvocacean mor- phological disparity ...
178 Kim Sterelny [Orr, 2000]H. A. Orr. Adaptation and the cost of complexity.Evolution, 54(1): 13–20, 2000. [Oyamaet al., 2001]S ...
DEVELOPMENT: THREE GRADES OF ONTOGENETIC INVOLVEMENT D. M. Walsh 1 INTRODUCTION Viktor Hamburger [1980] famously claimed that de ...
180 D. M. Walsh developing the space of possibilities, it will help if we understand the rationale behind the original marginali ...
Development: Three Grades of Ontogenetic Involvement 181 view, not of any great theoretical significance [Bowler, 1988]. But her ...
182 D. M. Walsh 2.2 Mendelism Mendel’s theory holds that inheritance is particulate. Even if there should be some blending of in ...
Development: Three Grades of Ontogenetic Involvement 183 their retention from one generation to the next and their subsequent se ...
184 D. M. Walsh survive at the expense of others. Vehicle selection is the process by which some vehicles are more successful th ...
Development: Three Grades of Ontogenetic Involvement 185 modern synthesis theory that is up for grabs here. If the most plausibl ...
186 D. M. Walsh mapping of genotype space into phenotype space. Some changes in genotype space may correspond to no changes in p ...
Development: Three Grades of Ontogenetic Involvement 187 mark of selection. So development explains the distribution of form, on ...
188 D. M. Walsh caterpillars imprint on their hosts; they lay their eggs on the type of plant on which they hatch. Suppose an eg ...
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