This Element introduces the Disambiguating Project (DP) about the
units of selection. By DP, the authors mean the thesis that the
expression 'units of selection' refers to at least three
non-co-extensional functional concepts: interactor,
replicator/reproducer/reconstitutor, and manifestor of
adaptation/type-1 agent. They present each concept and demonstrate
the necessity of their isolation, because each of them responds to
a distinct question about the units of selection, and these
distinct questions are not always posed in combination in today's
biological research. They further apply the framework to the
analysis of the debates concerning the Evolutionary Transitions in
Individuality (ETI) and argue that the DP interprets the ETI better
than any project rejecting the three meanings of 'units of
selection.' Thus, they claim that the differentiation between at
least these three functional concepts is fundamental to clarify
some conceptual confusions in biology, which rest on the conflation
of these distinct meanings.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Elements in the Philosophy of Biology |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Javier Suárez
• Elisabeth A. Lloyd
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Pages: |
75 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-00-927641-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-00-927641-7 |
Barcode: |
9781009276412 |
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