Fitness is a central but notoriously vexing concept in evolutionary biology. The propensity
interpretation of fitness is often regarded as the least problematic account for fitness. It ties …

Models of evolutionary population dynamics represent changes in the structure of evolving
populations in terms of selection, drift, and fitness. 1 There is a range of such models, from …

Recent arguments concerning the nature of causation in evolutionary theory, now often
known as the debate between the'causalist'and'statisticalist'positions, have involved …

Showing that the arithmetic mean number of offspring for a trait type often fails to be a
predictive measure of fitness was a welcome correction to the philosophical literature on …

Through his innovative study of language, noted Heidegger scholar Lawrence Hatab offers
a proto-phenomenological account of the lived world, the “first” world of factical life, where …

Among advocates and critics of the “extended evolutionary synthesis”(EES),“reciprocal
causation” refers to the view that adaptive evolution is a bidirectional phenomenon, whereby …

The new foundation for the propensity interpretation of fitness (PIF), developed by Pence
and Ramsey (Br J Philos Sci 64: 851–881, 2013), describes fitness as a probability …

The most consistent definition of fitness makes it a static property of organisms. However,
this is not how fitness is used in many evolutionary models. In those models, fitness is …

Over the last 20 years, the concept of natural selection has been highly debated in the
philosophy of biology. Yet, most discussions on this topic have focused on the questions of …

Anthropogenic pollution is a major driver of global environmental change. To be properly
addressed, the study of the impact of pollutants must consider both lethal effects and …