Evolution and Constraints on Variation: Variant Specification and Range of Assessment.
There is still a great deal of debate over what counts as a constraint and about how to assess experimentally the relative importance of constraints and selection in evolutionary history. I will argue that the notion of a constraint on variation, and thus the selection-constraint distinction, depend...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 78; no. 5; pp. 739 - 752 |
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Dec2011
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