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Evolution and the machinery of chance : philosophy, probability, and scientific practice in biology
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Evolution and the machinery of chance : philosophy, probability, and scientific practice in biology / Marshall Abrams.
ISBN
9780226826622 (electronic bk.)
0226826627 (electronic bk.)
9780226826615
0226826619
9780226826639
0226826635
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
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1 online resource.
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Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 31, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Background on probability and evolution
Laying the foundation. Population-environment systems ; Causal probability and empirical practice ; Irrelevance of fitness as a causal property of token organisms ; Roles of environmental variation in selection
Reconstructing evolution and chance. Populations in biological practice: Pragmatic yet real ; Real causation in pragmatic population-environment systems ; Fitness concepts in measurement and modeling ; Chance in population-environment systems ; The input measure problem for MM-CCS chance
Conclusion.
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