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Selection and covariance.
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This is a preliminary communication describing applications to genetical selection of a new mathematical treatment of selection in general.Abstract:
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Fitting in: group effects and the evolution of fundamentalism
Daniel G. Arce,Todd Sandler +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an evolutionary model of conflict based on dyadic interactions within and between individuals drawn from a society containing fundamentalists and "others" is presented, which leads to a central result characterizing how fair and open societies can peacefully contravene fundamentalism.
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Creative Destruction and the Measurement of Productivity Change
John Metcalfe,Ronnie Ramlogan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the population method drawn from evolutionary theory provides a coherent frame in which the various processes impinging on productivity change can be integrated and identify some of the puzzles and ambiguities that arise from decomposing any aggregate measure of productivity growth into innovation effects in firms and selection effects in markets.
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Evolution of Robustness and Plasticity under Environmental Fluctuation: Formulation in Terms of Phenotypic Variances
TL;DR: Evolution under environmental variation is numerically investigated and it is found that both the adaptability to a novel environment and the robustness are made compatible when a certain degree of phenotypic fluctuations exists due to noise.
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From Grooming to Giving Blood: The Origins of Human Altruism
Joan B. Silk,Robert Boyd +1 more
TL;DR: The human capacities for culture may have created novel evolutionary forces that altered the selective benefits derived from cooperation, and cooperation in human societies may also be supported by group-level processes that do not exist in other primate species.
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2 Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus
TL;DR: The philosophical problems raised by the two Darwinian claims of the existence of Tree of Life and the explanatory power of natural selection are surveyed, and consequences are drawn about the difficulty of explanations to fit a nomological model of explanation, and the irreducibility of their historic‐narrative dimension.