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Mutation, Randomness, and Evolution
Engelsk Paperback
Mutation, Randomness, and Evolution
Engelsk Paperback

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What does it mean to say that mutation is random? How does mutation influence evolution? Are mutations merely the raw material for selection to shape adaptations? The author draws on a detailed knowledge of mutational mechanisms to argue that the randomness doctrine is best understood, not as a fact-based conclusion, but as the premise of a neo-Darwinian research program focused on selection. The successes of this research program created a blind spot - in mathematical models and verbal theories of causation - that has stymied efforts to re-think the role of variation. However, recent theoretical and empirical work shows that mutational biases can and do influence the course of evolution, including adaptive evolution, through a first come, first served mechanism.This thought-provoking book cuts through the conceptual tangle at the intersection of mutation, randomness, and evolution, offering a fresh, far-reaching, and testable view of the role of variation as a dispositional evolutionary factor. The arguments will be accessible to philosophers and historians with a serious interest in evolution, as well as to researchers and advanced students of evolution focused on molecules, microbes, evo-devo, and population genetics.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780192872579
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0192872575
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Udg. Dato:
8 jun 2023
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
246mm
Højde:
189mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
8 jun 2023
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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