Philosophy of Biology

332 Margaret Morrison was, among other things, complex mathematical frameworks capable of showing that selection operated in Men ...

The Development of Population Genetics 333 [Galton, 1892]F. Galton.Finger Prints. London: Macmillan, 1892. [Gayon, 1998]J. Gayon ...

MAXIMISATION PRINCIPLES IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY A. W. F. Edwards 1 INTRODUCTION Maximisation principles in evolutionary biology ...

336 A. W. F. Edwards of potentials and fields of force in gravitational and electromagnetic theory. The great 18th century devel ...

Maximisation Principles in Evolutionary Biology 337 (its ‘growth-rate’). At the end of the unit time interval the new proportion ...

338 A. W. F. Edwards and no further increase in the overall growth-rate can occur. It is as though the process of change, or evo ...

Maximisation Principles in Evolutionary Biology 339 the variance is to a larger extent ascribable to environmental variations’ [ ...

340 A. W. F. Edwards work to influence the overall mean fitness of a population, which must always be roughly constant for a pop ...

Maximisation Principles in Evolutionary Biology 341 5 EVOLUTION AS FITNESS-MAXIMISATION. (3) WHAT REMAINS TO BE SAID If it is tr ...

342 A. W. F. Edwards tal Theorem of Natural Selection seems to be about as much as it is possible to say about the relationship ...

Maximisation Principles in Evolutionary Biology 343 used to develop population genetics is that it has the same mathematical for ...

344 A. W. F. Edwards for the preference obsolete. The probabilistic revolution applied the calculus of probability, invented in ...

Maximisation Principles in Evolutionary Biology 345 Nowadays human geneticists implicitly use the same argument to infer relatio ...

346 A. W. F. Edwards maximum likelihood applied to a specific model for the evolutionary process, are all examples of the use of ...

Maximisation Principles in Evolutionary Biology 347 [Fisher, 1918b]R. A. Fisher. The causes of human variability.Eugenics Review ...

REDUCTIONISM IN BIOLOGY Alex Rosenberg Physicalism about biology is the thesis that all facts, including all the non- macromolec ...

350 Alex Rosenberg complete in various ways than reducing theories, and therefore incompatible with them in predictions and expl ...

Reductionism in Biology 351 string(s) of nucleic acid bases, could not provide the systematic link between the functional ‘gene’ ...

352 Alex Rosenberg An even vaster disjunction of nucleic acid sequences than the actual sequence will work just as well, or inde ...

Reductionism in Biology 353 The unavoidable conclusion is that as far as the post-positivist or “layer-cake” model of intertheor ...