W Ford Doolittle
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Ford Doolittle |
| GIVEN NAMES | W Ford |
| FAMILY NAME | Doolittle |
| SIGNATURE | DOOLITTLE W F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4675-8832 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Chemostat Model for Evolution by Persistence: Clade Selection and Its Explanatory Autonomy
Many contemporary biologists and philosophers of biology admit that selection occurs at any level of the biological hierarchy at which entities showing heritable variation in fitness are found, while insisting that fitness at any level entails differential reproduction, not differential persistence. Those who allow that persistence can be selected doubt that selection on nonreproducing entities can be reiterated, to produce “complex adaptations.”…
Species’ without species
The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function
Life and life only: A radical alternative to life definitionism
Making the Most of Clade Selection
Clade selection is unpopular with philosophers who otherwise accept multilevel selection theory. Clades cannot reproduce, and reproduction is widely thought necessary for evolution by natural selection, especially of complex adaptations. Using microbial evolutionary processes as heuristics, I argue contrariwise that (1) clade growth (proliferation of contained species) substitutes for clade reproduction in the evolution of complex adaptation, (2)…
Life and life only: A radical alternative to life definitionism
Species’ without species
Making the Most of Clade Selection
Clade selection is unpopular with philosophers who otherwise accept multilevel selection theory. Clades cannot reproduce, and reproduction is widely thought necessary for evolution by natural selection, especially of complex adaptations. Using microbial evolutionary processes as heuristics, I argue contrariwise that (1) clade growth (proliferation of contained species) substitutes for clade reproduction in the evolution of complex adaptation, (2)…
A Chemostat Model for Evolution by Persistence: Clade Selection and Its Explanatory Autonomy
Many contemporary biologists and philosophers of biology admit that selection occurs at any level of the biological hierarchy at which entities showing heritable variation in fitness are found, while insisting that fitness at any level entails differential reproduction, not differential persistence. Those who allow that persistence can be selected doubt that selection on nonreproducing entities can be reiterated, to produce “complex adaptations.”…
Making the Most of Clade Selection
Clade selection is unpopular with philosophers who otherwise accept multilevel selection theory. Clades cannot reproduce, and reproduction is widely thought necessary for evolution by natural selection, especially of complex adaptations. Using microbial evolutionary processes as heuristics, I argue contrariwise that (1) clade growth (proliferation of contained species) substitutes for clade reproduction in the evolution of complex adaptation, (2)…
Life and life only: A radical alternative to life definitionism
Species’ without species
The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function
A Chemostat Model for Evolution by Persistence: Clade Selection and Its Explanatory Autonomy
Many contemporary biologists and philosophers of biology admit that selection occurs at any level of the biological hierarchy at which entities showing heritable variation in fitness are found, while insisting that fitness at any level entails differential reproduction, not differential persistence. Those who allow that persistence can be selected doubt that selection on nonreproducing entities can be reiterated, to produce “complex adaptations.”…
Biology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (4 works) · Evolutionary biology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 works) · Genetics (3 works)