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Autor:
Pierre-Luc Germain, Lucie Laplane
Publikováno v:
Biology & Philosophy. 32:281-287
In response to Germain (Biol Philos 27:785–810, 2012. doi:10.1007/s10539-012-9334-2) argument that evolution by natural selection has a limited explanatory power in cancer, Lean and Plutynski (Biol Philos 31:39–57, 2016. doi:10.1007/s10539-015-95
Publikováno v:
Biology & Philosophy. 31:39-57
One of the major developments in cancer research in recent years has been the construction of models that treat cancer as a cellular population subject to natural selection. We expand on this idea, drawing upon multilevel selection theory. Cancer is
Autor:
Pierrick Bourrat
Publikováno v:
Biology & Philosophy. 29:517-538
For evolution by natural selection to occur it is classically admitted that the three ingredients of variation, difference in fitness and heredity are necessary and sufficient. In this paper, I show using simple individual-based models, that evolutio
Autor:
David C. Queller
Publikováno v:
Biology & Philosophy. 26:905-913
Biologists and philosophers differ on whether selection should be analyzed at the level of the gene or of the individual. In Peter Godfrey-Smith’s book, Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, he argues that individuals can be good members of
Autor:
Pieter Adriaens
Publikováno v:
Biology & Philosophy. 22:513-528
Evolutionary psychiatrists invariably consider schizophrenia to be a paradox: how come natural selection has not yet eliminated the infamous ‘genes for schizophrenia’ if the disorder simply crushes the reproductive success of its carriers, if it
Autor:
David Haig
Publikováno v:
Biology & Philosophy. 22:415-428
August Weismann rejected the inheritance of acquired characters on the grounds that changes to the soma cannot produce the kind of changes to the germ-plasm that would result in the altered character being transmitted to subsequent generations. His i