Driftability.
In this paper, I argue (contra some recent philosophical work) that an objective distinction between natural selection and drift be drawn. I draw this distinction by conceiving of drift, in the most fundamental sense, as an individual-level phenomenon. This goes against some other attempts to disti...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 190; no. 17; pp. 3909 - 3929 |
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