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Natural selection: A concept in need of some evolution?

✍ Scribed by Charles H. Smith

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
130 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
1076-2787

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In some respects natural selection is a quite simple theory, arrived at through the logical integration of three propositions (the presence of variation within natural populations, an absolutely limited resources base, and procreation capacities exceeding mere replacement numbers) whose individual truths can hardly be denied. Its relation to the larger subject of evolution, however, remains problematic. It is suggested here thata scaling‐down of the meaning of natural selection to “the elimination of the unfit,” as originally intended by Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), might ultimately prove a more effective means of relating it to larger‐scale, longer‐term, evolutionary processes. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity, 2011

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