How the Concept of Population Resolves Concepts of Environment

Autor:	Roberta L. Millstein
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Philosophy History education.field_of_study History and Philosophy of Science Homogeneous Ecology Population Selection (linguistics) Biology education Evolutionary theory Epistemology
Zdroj:	Millstein, RL. (2014). How the concept of population resolves concepts of environment. Philosophy of Science, 81(5), 741-755. doi: 10.1086/677220. UC Davis: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/399769jk
ISSN:	1539-767X 0031-8248
DOI:	10.1086/677220
Popis:	© 2014 by the Philosophy of Science Association. All rights reserved. Elsewhere, I defend the “causal interactionist population concept” (CIPC). Here I further defend the CIPC by showing how it clarifies another concept that biologists grapple with, namely, environment. Should we understand selection as ranging only over homogeneous environments or, alternatively, as ranging over any habitat area we choose to study? I argue instead that the boundaries of the population dictate the range of the environment, whether homogeneous or heterogeneous, over which selection operates. Thus, understanding the concept of population helps us to understand concepts of selective environment, exemplifying the importance of the CIPC to other concepts and debates.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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