Publication: The role of randomness in Darwinian evolution
The role of randomness in Darwinian evolution
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Wagner, A. (2012). The role of randomness in Darwinian evolution. Philosophia Scientiae - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 79, 95–119. https://doi.org/10.1086/663239
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Historically, one of the most controversial aspects of Darwinian evolution has been the prominent role that randomness and random change play in it. Most biologists agree that mutations in DNA have random effects on fitness. However, fitness is a highly simplified scalar representation of an enormously complex phenotype. Challenges to Darwinian thinking have focused on such complex phenotypes. Whether mutations affect such complex phenotypes randomly is ill understood. Here I discuss three very different classes of well-studied molecu
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- Wagner, Andreas
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Wagner, A. (2012). The role of randomness in Darwinian evolution. Philosophia Scientiae - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 79, 95–119. https://doi.org/10.1086/663239
