Reydon, Thomas A. C. (Author)
Markus Scholz (Author)
While evolutionary thinking is increasingly becoming popular in fields of investigation outside the biological sciences, it remains unclear how helpful it is there and whether it actually yields good explanations of the phenomena under study. Here we examine the ontology of a recent approach to applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, the generalized Darwinism (GD) approach proposed by Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen. We examine the ontology of populations in biology and in GD, and argue that biological evolutionary theory sets ontological criteria that GD fails to meet. We suggest two options to revise the population concept in GD: reformulating the concept in terms of inheritance and reproduction such that it comes to pick out individuals similar to evolving populations, or trying to build an adequate population concept on a principle of differential retention instead of differential reproduction. 1 Introduction 2 Generalized Darwinism 2.1 What is generalized Darwinism? 2.2 Darwinian principles 3 The Ontology of Generalized Darwinism: What Are Populations? 3.1 The population concept of generalized Darwinism 3.2 The population concept in evolutionary theory 4 Locating Evolving Systems in Generalized Darwinism 5 Conclusion
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