Population Genetics and Population Thinking: Mathematics and the Role of the Individual.
Ernst Mayr has criticised the methodology of population genetics for being essentialist: interested only in "types" as opposed to individuals. In fact, he goes so far as to claim that "he who does not understand the uniqueness of individuals is unable to understand the working of natural selection"...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 71; no. 5; pp. 1189 - 1201 |
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Cambridge University Press
Dec2004
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