Article ID: CBB094549170

Bivalent Selection and Graded Darwinian Individuality (2022)

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Philosophers are approaching a consensus that biological individuality, including evolutionary individuality, comes in degrees. Graded evolutionary individuality presents a puzzle when juxtaposed with another widely embraced view: that evolutionary individuality follows from being a selectable member of a Darwinian population. Population membership is, on the orthodox view, a bivalent condition, so how can members of Darwinian populations vary in their degree of individuality? This article offers a solution to the puzzle, by locating difference in degree of evolutionary individuality at the level of population lineages, some of which are more Darwinian than others. In doing so, it sheds light on graded individuality in overlapping and nested population lineages, such as those that arise in multilevel selection and symbiotic collectives.

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Authors & Contributors
Nyhart, Lynn K.
Lidgard, Scott
Juan Manuel Rodríguez-Caso
Ricardo Noguera-Solano
Rosaura Ruiz-Gutiérrez
Boucher, Sandy C.
Concepts
Evolution
Species concept (biology)
Biology
Natural selection
Darwinism
Philosophy of biology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Ukraine
Americas
United States
Germany
France
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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