Adaptationism and optimality:

The debate over the relative importance of natural selection as compared to other forces affecting the evolution of organisms is a long-standing and central controversy in evolutionary biology. The theory of adaptationism argues that natural selection contains sufficient explanatory power in itself...

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Weitere Verfasser: Orzack, Steven Hecht (HerausgeberIn), Sober, Elliott (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
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Zusammenfassung:The debate over the relative importance of natural selection as compared to other forces affecting the evolution of organisms is a long-standing and central controversy in evolutionary biology. The theory of adaptationism argues that natural selection contains sufficient explanatory power in itself to account for all evolution. However, there are differing views about the efficiency of the adaptation model of explanation. If the adaptationism theory is applied, are energy and resources being used to their optimum? This book presents an up-to-date view of this controversy and reflects the dramatic changes in our understanding of evolution that have occurred in the last twenty years. The volume combines contributions from biologists and philosophers, and offers a systematic treatment of foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues surrounding the theory of adaptationism. The essays examine recent developments in topics such as phylogenetic analysis, the theory of optimality and ess models, and methods of testing models
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 404 pages)
ISBN:9780511609084
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511609084

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