Wayward Modeling: Population Genetics and Natural Selection.

Since the introduction of mathematical population genetics, its machinery has shaped our fundamental understanding of natural selection. Selection is taken to occur when differential fitnesses produce differential rates of reproductive success, where fitnesses are understood as parameters in a popul...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 73; no. 4; pp. 369 - 390
Main Author:	Glymour, Bruce
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Oct2006
Subjects:	Natural selection Population genetics > Mathematical models Causal models Biological evolution Markov processes Biomathematics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost