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CATEGORIES:Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of
  Science
SUMMARY: Selection and maximization - Jonathan Birch (Depa
 rtment of History and Philosophy of Science)
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DESCRIPTION:The notion that evolution by natural selection is 
 a process of fitness-maximization gets a bad press
  in population genetics\, and understandably so. Y
 et in other areas of biology\, the view that organ
 isms behave as if maximizing their fitness (or\, i
 n cases of social behaviour\, their inclusive fitn
 ess) remains widespread. In a series of recent pap
 ers\, the Oxford geneticist Alan Grafen has sought
  to reconcile population genetics with fitness-max
 imization through a research programme he terms 'F
 ormal Darwinism'. In this paper\, I explain and cr
 iticize this attempted rapprochement.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
CONTACT:Helen Curry
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