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Populations and pigeons: prosaic pluralism about evolutionary causes.

Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences - 1 Sept 2013

Abrams Marshall

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Walsh (2007, 2010) was correct to conclude that the way a biological population is described should affect conclusions about whether natural selection occurs, but wrong to conclude that natural selection is therefore not a cause. After providing a new argument that (Walsh, 2007) ignored crucial b...

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PMID: 23910717
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.06.005

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