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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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Fitness Causes Bloat in Variable Size Representations
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the tendency for solutions to grow in size is caused by fitness based selection, and that an increase in representation length is inherent in using a fixed evaluation function with a discrete but variable length representation.
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Ultimate causes and the evolution of altruism
TL;DR: It is argued that analysing the evolution of altruism in terms of its ultimate causes is the logical way to approach the problem and that, despite some of its technical limitations, the Price equation approach is a particularly powerful way of doing so.
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Aging is a Group-Selected Adaptation: Theory, Evidence, and Medical Implications
TL;DR: In this article, the Demographic Theory of Senescence was proposed, whereby aging has been affirmatively selected because it levels the death rate over time helping stabilize population dynamics and prevent extinctions.
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Non-genetic inheritance and evolution
TL;DR: This chapter outlines the historical background to the development of the transmission genetics view of heredity and how recent findings in molecular, developmental, and behavioural biology challenge the textbooks and shows how the teaching of fundamental concepts in evolutionary biology can benefit from philosophical analysis informed by contemporary biological research.
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Individual fitness and phenotypic selection in age-structured populations with constant growth rates.
Jacob A. Moorad,Jacob A. Moorad +1 more
TL;DR: It is discussed how multiple regressions, applied to individual reproductive value at birth, can be used efficiently to estimate measures of phenotypic selection that are problematic for sensitivity analyses, including nonlinear selection, components of the opportunity for selection, and multilevel selection.