Thesis ID: CBB001567349

Modeling Evolution (2012)

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Eugene, Earnshaw-Whyte (Author)


University of Toronto
Walsh, Denis


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Advisor: Walsh, Denis.
Physical Details: 255 pp.
Language: English

Evolution by natural selection began as a biological concept, but since Darwin it has been recognized to have broader application than biology. Applying evolutionary ideas beyond biology requires that the principles of evolution by natural selection be abstracted and generalized from the biological case. The received view of evolution by natural selection in biology is itself seriously flawed, which understandably renders the project of abstracting it and applying it elsewhere challenging. This thesis develops a generalized account of models of evolution by natural selection which is used to resolve various outstanding issues in the philosophy of biology. This also clarifies the methods and prospects of applying evolution by natural selection to non-biological domains. It does so by analyzing models of evolution both within biology and outside it, relying in particular on the contrast provided by models of firm competition in evolutionary economics. This analysis highlights those aspects of the classical view which must be abandoned or revised, and leads to the development of a neo-dynamical model of evolution, which is developed, explained, defended, and applied to problems in evolutionary biology and multi-level selection theory.

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Description Cited in Dissertation Abstracts International-B 74/08(E), Feb 2014. Proquest Document ID: 1330464871.


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Authors & Contributors
Bourrat, Pierrick
Rice, Collin C.
Rohwer, Yasha
Stott, Rebecca
Stefano, Waldir
Sober, Elliott R.
Concepts
Evolution
Biology
Natural selection
Philosophy of biology
Causality
Probability and statistics
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
England
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