Philosophy of Biology
106 James F. Crow the time till fixation, and the number of individuals in the path to fixation all were immediately applicable ...
Motoo Kimura 107 BIBLIOGRAPHY [Crow, 1997]J. F. Crow. Motoo Kimura.Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 47: 253 ...
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NATURAL SELECTION Christopher Stephens Charles Darwin introduced the term “natural selection” in chapter IV of his bookOn the Or ...
112 Christopher Stephens Trying to understand the precise scope and role of natural selection in evolu- tionary theory generates ...
Natural Selection 113 definition of fitness does not imply that there actually are heritable variations of fitness, or the natur ...
114 Christopher Stephens short-term fitness but a low long-term fitness or vice versa. Another complication is that when a certa ...
Natural Selection 115 giraffe descendents. Matthen [1999; 2002; 2003] offers an independent argument in favor of the claim that ...
116 Christopher Stephens population) will get to AB. In the second case, we suppose thatABis again the fittest combination but t ...
Natural Selection 117 and then be favored by natural selection for another reason (dominance displays). Gould and Vrba [1982] re ...
118 Christopher Stephens planations that aren’t supported by much evidence. It is easy to make up a story about how a traitmight ...
Natural Selection 119 of this genetic constraint. Adaptationists tend to think that cases of heterozygote superiority are rare — ...
120 Christopher Stephens If the model makes precise predictions, it is no longer a trivial matter to make up a theory or model t ...
Natural Selection 121 that this may not be an issue which is resolvable by any sort of straightforward epistemic means. While Go ...
122 Christopher Stephens (“apparent design”) as the primary explanandum, whereas developmental biolo- gists often view the diver ...
Natural Selection 123 which the adaptationism debate is about how nature restricts the space of options for natural selection to ...
124 Christopher Stephens inheritance. So this is one important difference with a Newtonian zero-force law. Secondly, several bio ...
Natural Selection 125 withT 1 (the fitter trait) survives and the second organism (withT 2 ) dies. In the second scenario, light ...
126 Christopher Stephens [Gould and Lewontin, 1979] S. Gould and R. Lewontin. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian par ...
Natural Selection 127 [Sober, 2001]E. Sober. The two faces of fitness. InThinking About Evolution: Historical, Philo- sophical a ...
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