Complex Life Cycles and the Evolutionary Process
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10706147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Godfrey-Smith, Peter Godfrey‐smith (0000-0003-1519-3661, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 816-827 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/687866 |
| OpenAlex | W2432108189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
Problems raised by complex life cycles for standard summaries of evolutionary processes, and for concepts of individuality in biology, are described. I then outline a framework that can be used to compare life cycles. This framework treats reproduction as a combination of production and recurrence and organizes life cycles according to the distribution of steps in which multiplication, bottlenecks, and sex occur. I also discuss fitness and its measurement in complex life cycles and consider some phenomena that raise complications and difficulties for my framework
Biology · Epistemology · Multiplication (music) · Process (computing) · Reproduction · Computer Science · Ecology · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Mathematics · Philosophy · Plant and animal studies
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2018 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |