Multi-level selection and the explanatory value of mathematical decompositions

DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXV008MaRDI QIDQ2965417zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher T. Clarke

Publication date 3 March 2017

Published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/246279

zbMATH Keywords

fitnesscollective resourceshomogenizing assortmentmulti-level price decompositionsocial traits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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