Natural selection requires no teleology in addition to heritable variation in fitness

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作者
Cofnas, Nathan [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cambridge, Fac Philosophy, Cambridge, England
关键词
Natural selection; Neo-Darwinism; Modern synthesis; Teleology; Artificial selection; Intelligent design; CULTURAL-EVOLUTION;
D O I
10.1007/s10539-024-09954-0
中图分类号
N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;
摘要
According to the standard formulation, natural selection requires variation, differential fitness, and heritability. I argue that this formulation is inadequate because it fails to distinguish natural selection from artificial selection, intelligent design, forward-looking orthogenetic selection, and adaptation via the selection of nonrandom variation. I suggest adding a no teleology condition. The no teleology condition says that the evolutionary process is not guided toward an endpoint represented in the mind of an agent, variation is produced randomly with respect to adaptation, and selection pressures are not forward looking.
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