How to Study Adaptation (and Why To Do It That Way)

Some adaptationist explanations are regarded as maximally solid and others fanciful just-so stories. Just-so stories are explanations based on very little evidence. Lack of evidence leads to circular-sounding reasoning: “this trait was shaped by selection in unseen ancestral populations and this sel...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Quarterly review of biology 2015-06, Vol.90 (2), p.167-191
Hauptverfasser:	Olson, Mark E., Arroyo-Santos, Alfonso
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adaptability Adaptation, Physiological Animals Bayes Theorem Biological adaptation Biological Evolution Biologists Biology Direct evidence Ecological competition Evolutionary biology Heritability Hypothetico deductive model Phenotypic traits Population characteristics Reasoning
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