From Fitness-Centered to Trait-Centered Explanations: What Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality Teach Us About Fitness.

Fitness has taken center stage in debates concerning how best to identify evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs). An influential framework proposes that an ETI occurs only when fitness is exported from constituent particles to a collective. We reformulate the conceptual structure of this f...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 91; no. 5; pp. 1425 - 1435
Autores principales: Takacs, Peter, Doulcier, Guilhem, Bourrat, Pierrick
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Dec2024
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          Takacs, Peter
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          Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
          Philosophy Department, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
          Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
          Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Department of Theoretical Biology, Plön, Germany
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        Conceptual structures
        Structural frames
        Counterfactuals (Logic)
        Individuality
        Explanation
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      ab: Fitness has taken center stage in debates concerning how best to identify evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs). An influential framework proposes that an ETI occurs only when fitness is exported from constituent particles to a collective. We reformulate the conceptual structure of this framework as involving three steps. The culminating step compares "counterfactual" fitnesses against a long-run measure of fitness. This comparison assumes that collective-level fitness mereologically supervenes on particle fitness. However, if this assumption is rigorously enforced, the proposed conditions for identifying ETIs prove to be too weak. We here suggest an alternative model of ETIs centered around traits.
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