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Replication without replicators
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Author
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Abstract
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| According to a once influential view of selection, it consists of repeated cycles of replication and interaction. It has been argued that this view is wrong: replication is not necessary for evolution by natural selection. I analyze the nine most influential arguments for this claim and defend the replicationinteraction conception of selection against these objections. In order to do so, however, the replicationinteraction conception of selection needs to be modified significantly. My proposal is that replication is not the copying of an entity, the replicator, but the copying of a property. Thus, we can have a replication process without there being a replicator that is being copied. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Synthese : an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science. - Dordrecht, 1936, currens
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Publication
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Dordrecht
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2011
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ISSN
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0039-7857
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1573-0964
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DOI
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10.1007/S11229-009-9702-X
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Volume/pages
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179
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(2011)
, p. 455-477
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ISI
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000287851000006
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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