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The Generational Cycle of State Spaces and Adequate Genetical Representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Elisabeth A. Lloyd ,
Richard C. Lewontin  and
Marcus W. Feldman
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Abstract

Most models of generational succession in sexually reproducing populations necessarily move back and forth between genic and genotypic spaces. We show that transitions between and within these spaces are usually hidden by unstated assumptions about processes in these spaces. We also examine a widely endorsed claim regarding the mathematical equivalence of kin-, group-, individual-, and allelic-selection models made by Lee Dugatkin and Kern Reeve. We show that the claimed mathematical equivalence of the models does not hold.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 140 - 156
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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