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...

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Publicado en:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 78; no. 5; pp. 739 - 752
Autor principal:	Pearce, Trevor
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Cambridge University Press Dec2011
Materias:	Biological evolution Philosophy of biology Biological variation Definition (Logic) Natural selection Phenotypes
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