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“Which processes are selection processes?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Samir Okasha
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of York, York, United Kingdom so5@york.ac.uk
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Abstract

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I argue that population-level selection does not necessarily have to be invoked to explain the polymorphism at the MHC locus. I argue that the authors' attempt to model operant conditioning in Darwinian terms faces a serious problem. Depending on how many operant responses we take to comprise a sequence, different conclusions about whether or not evolution is occurring in an operant lineage will be reached.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press