Evolution and the machinery of chance : philosophy, probability, and scientific practice in biology / Marshall Abrams.
Abrams, Marshall (Professor of philosophy), author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2023
QH360.5 .A27 2023
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Evolution and the machinery of chance : philosophy, probability, and scientific practice in biology / Marshall Abrams.
Author
Abrams, Marshall (Professor of philosophy), author.
ISBN
9780226826622
0226826627
9780226826615
0226826619
9780226826639
0226826635
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
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English
Description
1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations.
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QH360.5 .A27 2023
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576.8/2
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Background on probability and evolution
Laying the foundation. Population-environment systems ; Causal probability and empirical practice ; Irrelevance of fitness as a causal property of token organisms ; Roles of environmental variation in selection
Reconstructing evolution and chance. Populations in biological practice: Pragmatic yet real ; Real causation in pragmatic population-environment systems ; Fitness concepts in measurement and modeling ; Chance in population-environment systems ; The input measure problem for MM-CCS chance
Conclusion.

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