Variational propensities: development and ultimate causes.

This paper applies philosophical tools from the causalists/statisticalists debate to the evo-devo idea of variational tendencies as propensities biasing phenotypic change. It contends that variational properties are present in a statistical sense in some population dynamics models, particularly quan...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 203; no. 5; pp. 1 - 24
Autor principal: Villegas, Cristina
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature May2024
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