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What can natural selection explain?

Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences - 1 Mar 2010

Stegmann Ulrich E

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One approach to assess the explanatory power of natural selection is to ask what type of facts it can explain. The standard list of explananda includes facts like trait frequencies or the survival of particular organisms. Here, I argue that this list is incomplete: natural selection can also expl...

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PMID: 20185085
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2009.12.002

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