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The simplest formal argument for fitness optimization.

Journal of genetics - 1 Dec 2008

Grafen Alen

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The Formal Darwinism Project aims to provide a formal argument linking population genetics to fitness optimization, which of necessity includes defining fitness. This bridges the gulf between those biologists who assume that natural selection leads to something close to fitness optimization and those biologists who believe on theoretical grounds that there is no sense of fitness that can usefully be said to be...

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PMID: 19147931
DOI: 10.1007/s12041-008-0064-9

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