Natural Selection as a Population-Level Causal Process
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Natural Selection as a Population- Level Causal Process
Recent discussions in the philosophy of biology have brought into question some fundamental assumptions regarding evolutionary processes, natural selection in particular. Some authors argue that natural selection is nothing but a population-level, statistical consequence of lower-level events (Matthen and Ariew [2002]; Walsh et al. [2002]). On this view, natural selection itself does not involv...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0007-0882,1464-3537
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axl025