Adaptationism and the adaptive landscape |
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| Authors: | Jon F Wilkins Peter Godfrey-Smith |
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| Institution: | (1) Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA;(2) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA |
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| Abstract: | Debates over adaptationism can be clarified and partially resolved by careful consideration of the ‘grain’ at which evolutionary
processes are described. The framework of ‘adaptive landscapes’ can be used to illustrate and facilitate this investigation.
We argue that natural selection may have special status at an intermediate grain of analysis of evolutionary processes. The
cases of sickle-cell disease and genomic imprinting are used as case studies.
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| Keywords: | Natural selection Adaptationism Adaptive landscape Genetics Optimality Imprinting Game theory |
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