Can There Be Stochastic Evolutionary Causes?

Do evolutionary processes such as selection and random drift cause evolutionary change, or are they merely convenient ways of describing or summarizing it? Philosophers have lined up on both sides of this question. One recent defense (Reisman and Forber 2005) of the causal status of selection and dr...

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Publicado en:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 74; no. 5; pp. 616 - 628
Autores principales:	Forber, Patrick, Reisman, Kenneth
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Cambridge University Press Dec2007
Materias:	Causation (Philosophy) Natural selection Biological evolution Philosophy of biology Stochastic analysis
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