Villegas, Cristina and Love, Alan C. and Nuño de la Rosa, Laura and Brigandt, Ingo and Wagner, Günter P. (2021) Conceptual Roles of Evolvability across Evolutionary Biology: Between Diversity and Unification. [Preprint]
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A number of biologists and philosophers have noted the diversity of interpretations of evolvability in contemporary evolutionary research. Different clusters of research identified by co-citation patterns or shared methodological orientation sometimes concentrate on distinct conceptions of evolvability. We examine five different activities where the notion of evolvability plays conceptual roles in evolutionary biological investigation: setting a research agenda, characterization, explanation, prediction, and control. Our analysis of representative examples demonstrates how different conceptual roles of evolvability are quasi-independent and yet exhibit important relationships across scientific activities. It also provides us with the resources to detail two distinct strategies for how evolvability can help to synthesize disparate areas of research and thereby potentially serve as a unifying concept in evolutionary biology.
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| Additional Information: | To appear in: Evolvability. T. Hansen, D. Houle, M. Pavličev, and C. Pélabon (eds), Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Keywords: | characterization, concepts, control, evolvability, explanation, prediction, research agenda, unification | ||||||||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Structure of Theories |
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| Depositing User: | Ingo Brigandt | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2022 02:23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2022 02:23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Item ID: | 20185 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Structure of Theories |
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| Date: | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20185 |
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