Drift beyond Wright-Fisher.
Several recent arguments by philosophers of biology have challenged the traditional view that evolutionary factors, such as drift and selection, are genuine causes of evolutionary outcomes. In the case of drift, advocates of the statistical theory argue that drift is merely the sampling error inhere...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 192; no. 11; pp. 3487 - 3508 |
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