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Fitness: Philosophical Problems, Grant Ramsey, Charles H. Pence
Fitness: Philosophical Problems, Grant Ramsey, Charles H. Pence
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Fitness plays many roles throughout evolutionary theory, from a measure of populations in the wild to a central element in abstract theoretical presentations of natural selection. It has thus been the subject of an extensive philosophical literature, which has primarily centred on the way to understand the relationship between fitness values and reproductive outcomes. If fitness is a probabilistic or statistical quantity, how is it to be defined in general theoretical contexts? How can it be measured? Can a single conceptual model for fitness be offered that applies to all biological cases, or must fitness measures be case-specific? Philosophers have …
Staffan Müller-Wille And Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, A Cultural History Of Heredity, Charles H. Pence
Staffan Müller-Wille And Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, A Cultural History Of Heredity, Charles H. Pence
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A New Foundation For The Propensity Interpretation Of Fitness, Charles H. Pence, Grant Ramsey
A New Foundation For The Propensity Interpretation Of Fitness, Charles H. Pence, Grant Ramsey
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The propensity interpretation of fitness (PIF) is commonly taken to be subject to a set of simple counterexamples. We argue that three of the most important of these are not counterexamples to the PIF itself, but only to the traditional mathematical model of this propensity: fitness as expected number of offspring. They fail to demonstrate that a new mathematical model of the PIF could not succeed where this older model fails. We then propose a new formalization of the PIF that avoids these (and other) counterexamples. By producing a counterexample-free model of the PIF, we call into question one of …
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1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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Seafaring Nuns The Journey Of Six Capuchin Sisters From Toledo To Mexico City, 1665, Frieda Koeninger, Raquel Gutierrez Estupinan
Seafaring Nuns The Journey Of Six Capuchin Sisters From Toledo To Mexico City, 1665, Frieda Koeninger, Raquel Gutierrez Estupinan
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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Unorthodox Transportation And The Enlightenment, Jessika Wichner
Unorthodox Transportation And The Enlightenment, Jessika Wichner
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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The Paddle Wheel Boat A Technical Invention Of Late Antiquity, Dorit Engster
The Paddle Wheel Boat A Technical Invention Of Late Antiquity, Dorit Engster
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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Cosmopolitan Friendship In James Boswell's Journal Of A Tour To Corsica, Melvin Pena
Cosmopolitan Friendship In James Boswell's Journal Of A Tour To Corsica, Melvin Pena
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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Winter Travelers Captain Jones's Treatise On Skating, Jessika Wichner
Winter Travelers Captain Jones's Treatise On Skating, Jessika Wichner
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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Cumulative Index Volumes 1-20
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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Burke's Target In A Vindication Of Natural Society From Bolingbroke To "This Sort Of Writers," Or An Early Burkean Defense Of Church And State, Norbert Col
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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Philosophizing The Game The Morals Of Chess In Diderot's Rameau's Nephew, Florian Vauleon
Philosophizing The Game The Morals Of Chess In Diderot's Rameau's Nephew, Florian Vauleon
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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Swift And Temple, Ashley Marshall
Swift And Temple, Ashley Marshall
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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Marketing The "Good Man" Sir Charles Grandison And The Clementinas, Murray L. Brown
Marketing The "Good Man" Sir Charles Grandison And The Clementinas, Murray L. Brown
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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Loyalty Oaths A Reminder From The Enlightenment, A. G. Monaco
Loyalty Oaths A Reminder From The Enlightenment, A. G. Monaco
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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