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SUMMARY: Selection and maximization - Jonathan Birch (Department of Histor
 y and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Helen Curry
DESCRIPTION:The notion that evolution by natural selection is a process of
  fitness-maximization gets a bad press in population genetics\, and unders
 tandably so. Yet in other areas of biology\, the view that organisms behav
 e as if maximizing their fitness (or\, in cases of social behaviour\, thei
 r inclusive fitness) remains widespread. In a series of recent papers\, th
 e Oxford geneticist Alan Grafen has sought to reconcile population genetic
 s with fitness-maximization through a research programme he terms 'Formal 
 Darwinism'. In this paper\, I explain and criticize this attempted rapproc
 hement.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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