Rubin, Hannah (2016) The phenotypic gambit: selective pressures and ESS methodology in evolutionary game theory. Biology & Philosophy, 31 (4). pp. 551-569. ISSN 1572-8404
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The ‘phenotypic gambit,’ the assumption that we can ignore genetics and look at the fitness of phenotypes to determine the expected evolutionary dynamics of a population, is often used in evolutionary game theory. However, as this paper will show, an overlooked genotype to phenotype map can qualitatively affect evolution in ways the phenotypic approach cannot predict or explain. This gives us reason to believe that, even in the long-term, correspondences between phenotypic predictions and dynamical outcomes are not robust for all plausible assumptions regarding the underlying genetics of traits. This paper shows important ways in which the phenotypic gambit can fail and how to proceed with evolutionary game theoretic modeling when it does.
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| Keywords: | Evolutionary game theory, Philosophy of biology, Methodology, Evolutionary models | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Game Theory General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Hannah Rubin | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2019 13:36 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2019 13:36 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 15961 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Biology & Philosophy | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-016-9524-4 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Game Theory General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Date: | July 2016 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 551-569 | ||||||
| Volume: | 31 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1572-8404 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15961 |
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