Modern evolutionary genetics studies evolution as a population-level statistical trend,
abstracting away concrete causal interactions among individual organisms. Crucial to this …

Scientific inference typically relies on establishing causation. This is also the case in
evolutionary biology, a discipline charged with providing historical accounts of the properties …

The causal nature of evolution is one of the central topics in the philosophy of biology. The
issue concerns whether equations used in evolutionary genetics point to some causal …

The consequences of natural selection can be understood from a purely statistical
perspective. In contrast, an explicitly causal approach is required to understand why trait …

Ernst Mayr's classical work on the nature of causation in biology has had a huge influence
on biologists as well as philosophers. Although his distinction between proximate and …

I propose a new account of homology, according to which homology is a correspondence of
developmental mechanisms due to common ancestry, formally defined as an isomorphism …

Recent arguments concerning the nature of causation in evolutionary theory, now often
known as the debate between the'causalist'and'statisticalist'positions, have involved …

Why has understanding causation been so difficult in evolution? Perhaps it is because
evolutionary biology has the unique role among biological disciplines of interpreting …

The following dissertation is an inferentialist account of classical population genetics. I
present the theory as a definite body of interconnected inferential rules for generating …

The central role of mathematical modeling in modern evolutionary theory has raised a
concern as to why and how abstract formulae can say anything about empirical phenomena …