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Trait fitness is not a propensity, but fitness variation is.
Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences - 1 Sept 2013
Sober Elliott
Abstract excerpt
The propensity interpretation of fitness draws on the propensity interpretation of probability, but advocates of the former have not attended sufficiently to problems with the latter. The causal power of C to bring about E is not well-represented by the conditional probability Pr(E|C). Since the viability fitness of trait T is the conditional probability Pr(organism O survives to adulthood|O has T), the viability...
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