A Unifying Theory of Biological Function
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A Unifying Theory of Biological Function
A new theory that naturalizes biological function is explained and compared with earlier etiological and causal role theories. Etiological (or selected effects) theories explain functions from how they are caused over their evolutionary history. Causal role theories analyze how functional mechanisms serve the current capacities of their containing system. The new proposal unifies the key notion...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biological Theory
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1555-5542,1555-5550
DOI: 10.1007/s13752-017-0261-y