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Название: Mutation, Randomness, and Evolution
Автор: Arlin Stoltzfus
Издательство: OUP Oxford
Год: 2021
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 282
Размер: 26.9 Mb
Язык: English
What does it mean to say that mutation is random? How does mutation influence evolution? Are mutations merely the raw material for selection to shape adaptations?
The author draws on a detailed knowledge of mutational mechanisms to argue that the randomness doctrine is best understood, not as a fact-based conclusion, but as the premise of a neo-Darwinian research program focused on selection. The successes of this research program created a blind spot - in mathematical models and verbal theories of causation - that has stymied efforts to re-think the role of variation.
Автор: Arlin Stoltzfus
Издательство: OUP Oxford
Год: 2021
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 282
Размер: 26.9 Mb
Язык: English
What does it mean to say that mutation is random? How does mutation influence evolution? Are mutations merely the raw material for selection to shape adaptations?
The author draws on a detailed knowledge of mutational mechanisms to argue that the randomness doctrine is best understood, not as a fact-based conclusion, but as the premise of a neo-Darwinian research program focused on selection. The successes of this research program created a blind spot - in mathematical models and verbal theories of causation - that has stymied efforts to re-think the role of variation.