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Thursday, 22 July 2010 14:45 |
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[New Entry by Steven Hecht Orzack and Patrick Forber on July 22, 2010.]
"Adaptationism" refers to a family of views about the importance of natural selection in the evolution of organisms, in the construction of evolutionary explanations, and in defining the goal of research on evolution. Advocates of adaptationism or "adaptationists" view natural selection among individuals within a population as the only important cause of the evolution of a trait; they also typically believe that the construction of explanations based solely on natural selection to be the most fruitful...
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