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Inscrutability and the Opacity of Natural Selection and Random Genetic Drift: Distinguishing the Epistemic and Metaphysical Aspects.

'Statisticalists' argue that the individual interactions of organisms taken together constitute natural selection. On this view, natural selection is an aggregated effect of interactions rather than some added cause acting on populations. The statisticalists' view entails that natural selection and...

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Published in:Erkenntnis Vol. 80; pp. 491 - 519
Main Author: Huneman, Philippe
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2015 Supplement
Subjects:
Natural selection
Genetic drift
Epistemics
Metaphysics
Biological evolution
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