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Two stumbling blocks to a general accountof selection: Replication and information

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

William M. Baum
William M. Baum
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NC 03824 wm.baum@unh.edu
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Abstract

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When one takes the evolution of operant behavior as prototype, one sees that the term replication is too tied to the peculiarities of genetic evolution. A more general term is recurrence. The important problem raised by recurrence is not “information” but relationship: deciding when two occurrences belong to the same lineage. That is solved by looking at common environmental effects.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001, pp. 528
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press