The central insight of Darwin's Origin of Species is that evolution is an ecological
phenomenon, arising from the activities of organisms in the'struggle for life'. By contrast, the …

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called" natural selection,"
a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this …

An essential introduction to the philosophy of biology This is a concise, comprehensive, and
accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the …

An argument has been raised from various perspectives against the Modern Synthesis (MS)
in the past two decades: it has forgotten organisms. Niche construction theorists (Odling …

Models of evolutionary population dynamics represent changes in the structure of evolving
populations in terms of selection, drift, and fitness. 1 There is a range of such models, from …

Ever since its inception, the theory of evolution has been reified into an “-ism”: Darwinism.
Although biologists today, by and large, do not use the term “Darwinism” in their research, it …

This paper analyzes recent attempts to reject reproduction with lineage formation as a
necessary condition for evolution by means of natural selection (Bouchard in Philos Sci 75 …

The orthodox interpretation of Modern Synthesis population thinking is that it articulates the
causes of evolution that operate exclusively at the level of populations. 1 Natu ral se lection …

Canguilhem criticized the concept of “public health”: health and disease are concepts that
only apply to individuals, taken as organic totalities. Their extension to a different level of …

Based upon our previous reviews on the phylogenetic species concept, initial split criteria
and fine structure analysis here we summarize population and model thinking as support to …