Natural Selection as a Mechanism.

Skipper and Millstein (2005) argued that existing conceptions of mechanisms failed to "get at" natural selection but left open the possibility that a refined conception of mechanisms could resolve the problems that they identified. I respond to Skipper and Millstein, and argue that while many of the...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 306 - 323
Main Author:	Barros, D. Benjamin
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Jul2008
Subjects:	Natural selection Mechanism (Philosophy) Probability theory Biological adaptation Logical prediction
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