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Natural selection and metaphors of “selection”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Adolf Heschl
Affiliation:
Konrad Lorenz Institute of Evolution and Cognition Research, A-3422 Altenberg, Austriaadolf.heschl@kla.univie.ac.at www.univie.ac.at/evolution/kli/

Abstract

Natural selection in the sense of Darwin always means physical propagation (positive case) or disappearance (negative case) of living organisms due to differential reproduction. If one concentrates on this simple materialist principle, one arrives at a much better method of discerning true selection processes from largely nonrandom processes of internal rearrangement (somatic mutations) and reorganisation (operant learning).

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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