Selection, Drift, and the "Forces" of Evolution.

Recently, several philosophers have challenged the view that evolutionary theory is usefully understood by way of an analogy with Newtonian mechanics. Instead, they argue that evolutionary theory is merely a statistical theory. According to this alternate approach, natural selection and random genet...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 71; no. 4; pp. 550 - 571
Autor principal: Stephens, Christopher
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Oct2004
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