Musing on Means: Fitness, Expectation, and the Principles of Natural Selection

Bengt Autzen

doi:10.1093/bjps/axx031

Musing on Means: Fitness, Expectation, and the Principles of Natural Selection

Bengt Autzen

University of Bristol

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Abstract

How to measure fitness in the theory of natural selection? A fitness measure that has been proposed in both the biological and the philosophical literature is the expected relative reproductive success. The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between expected relative reproductive success and future actual evolutionary success. Doing so will not only clarify the use of expected relative reproductive success as a fitness measure but also shed light on the role of fitness in the theory of natural selection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	373-389
Number of pages	17
Journal	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Volume	71
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axx031
Publication status	Published - Mar 2020
Externally published	Yes

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