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...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 70; no. 2; pp. 280 - 302
Main Author: Walsh, Denis M.
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Apr2003
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