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    • Reproducees, reproducers, and Darwinian individuals
    • Review of 'Biological Individuality. Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology,' by Alison K. McConwell
    • Review of 'Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon,' edited by P.-O. Méthot.
    • Independence and the Levels of Selection
    • Stability of Ecologically Scaffolded Traits during Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality
    • Evolvability: Filling the Explanatory Gap between Adaptedness and the Long-Term Mathematical Conception of Fitness
    • Are Biology Experts and Novices Function Pluralists?
    • Context matters: a response to Autzen and Okasha’s reply to Takacs and Bourrat
    • Adding causality to the information-theoretic perspective on individuality
    • Individuality Through Ecology: Rethinking the Evolution of Complex Life From an Externalist Perspective
    • Moving past conventionalism about multilevel selection
    • Evolutionary transitions in individuality and life cycle closure
    • From fitness-centered to trait-centered explanations: what evolutionary transitions in individuality teach us about fitness
    • Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch
    • Multilevel selection 1, multilevel selection 2, and the Price equation: a reappraisal
    • A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes?
    • A Pricean formalization of Gaia
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    • The effect of bottleneck size on evolution in nested Darwinian populations
    • When local causes are more explanatorily useful
    • A New Set of Criteria for Units of Selection
    • Let's Get to Work: A Response to Our Commentators
    • Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor
    • Grains of description in biological and cultural transmission
    • Division of labor and fitness decoupling in evolutionary transitions in individuality
    • On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective
    • The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness
    • Unifying heritability in evolutionary theory
    • Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties
    • Fitness: Static or dynamic?
    • Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately
    • Review of 'Inheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis,' by Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb
    • Target Article: Are biological traits explained by their ‘selected effect’ functions?
    • Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection
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    • Measuring Causal Invariance Formally
    • Transitions in Individuality: A formal analysis
    • The Idea of Mismatch in Evolutionary Medicine
    • Fidelity and the grain problem in cultural evolution
    • Supernatural Beliefs and the Evolution of Cooperation
    • Taming Fitness: Organism-Environment Interdependencies Preclude Long-Term Fitness Forecasting
    • Causation and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Heritability
    • Natural selection and the reference grain problem
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    • On Calcott’s permissive and instructive cause distinction
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    • Evolution is about Populations, but its Causes are about Individuals
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    • Review of 'Biological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives,' by Scott Lidgard and Lynn Nyhart
    • Why the missing heritability might not be in the DNA
    • Explaining Drift from a Deterministic Setting
    • Dissolving the missing heritability problem
    • Interpreting Heritability Causally
    • Review of 'Evolution by Natural Selection: Confidence, Evidence and the Gap<,' by Michaelis Michael
    • Generalizing Contextual Analysis
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    • How to Read ‘Heritability’ in the Recipe Approach to Natural Selection
    • Distinguishing natural selection from other evolutionary processes in the evolution of altruism
    • Levels of selection are artefacts of different fitness temporal measures
    • Levels, time and fitness in evolutionary transitions in individuality
    • Origins and evolution of religion from a Darwinian point of view: Synthesis of different theories
    • From Survivors to Replicators: Evolution by Natural Selection Revisited
    • Reconceptualising Evolution by Natural Selection
    • Testing More Specific Hypotheses and Going beyond Correlations in the Origins and Evolution of Religious Beliefs. Comment on Ara Norenzayan's Book 'Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict'
    • Small things, big consequences: Microbiological perspectives on biology
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    • Is God an Adaptation? Essay Review on 'The Evolution of God,' by Robert Wright
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Reconceptualising Evolution by Natural Selection

Jan 1, 2014·
Pierrick Bourrat
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PhD Thesis, The University of Sydney
Last updated on Jan 1, 2014
← From Survivors to Replicators: Evolution by Natural Selection Revisited May 25, 2014
Testing More Specific Hypotheses and Going beyond Correlations in the Origins and Evolution of Religious Beliefs. Comment on Ara Norenzayan's Book 'Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict' Dec 12, 2013 →

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