Natural selection requires no teleology in addition to heritable variation in fitness

IF 1.7 1区哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Biology & Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI:10.1007/s10539-024-09954-0

Nathan Cofnas

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Abstract

According to the standard formulation, natural selection requires variation, differential fitness, and heritability. I argue that this formulation is inadequate because it fails to distinguish natural selection from artificial selection, intelligent design, forward-looking orthogenetic selection, and adaptation via the selection of nonrandom variation. I suggest adding a no teleology condition. The no teleology condition says that the evolutionary process is not guided toward an endpoint represented in the mind of an agent, variation is produced randomly with respect to adaptation, and selection pressures are not forward looking.

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自然选择不需要目的论，也不需要适应性的遗传变异

根据标准的表述，自然选择需要变异、差异适应性和遗传性。我认为这种表述是不恰当的，因为它未能将自然选择与人工选择、智能设计、前瞻性正交选择以及通过非随机变异选择进行的适应区分开来。我建议增加一个无目的论条件。无目的论条件指的是，进化过程并不是朝着一个代理人头脑中代表的终点进行的，变异是在适应方面随机产生的，选择压力也不是前瞻性的。

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Biology & Philosophy 管理科学-科学史与科学哲学

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4.10

自引率

8.00%

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>12 weeks

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