Fit and Diversity: Explaining Adaptive Evolution.
Proposes an alternative view of evolutionary theory in which natural selection explains adaptive evolution by appeal to the statistical structure of the populations and development explains the causes of adaptive evolution at the level of individuals. Merging a statistical theory of selection and a...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 70; no. 2; pp. 280 - 302 |
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Cambridge University Press
Apr2003
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| Sumario: | Proposes an alternative view of evolutionary theory in which natural selection explains adaptive evolution by appeal to the statistical structure of the populations and development explains the causes of adaptive evolution at the level of individuals. Merging a statistical theory of selection and a mechanical theory of development to explain why populations of organisms comprise individuals that are adapted to their conditions of existence. |
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