Abstract Recently, Doolittle and Inkpen formulated a thought provoking theory, asserting that
evolution by natural selection was responsible for the sideways evolution of two radically …

Many practicing biologists accept that nothing in their discipline makes sense except in the
light of evolution, and that natural selection is evolution's principal sense-maker. But what …

This paper introduces the reconstitutor as a comprehensive unit of heredity within the
context of evolutionary research. A reconstitutor is the structure resulting from a set of …

The selected effect account is regarded by many as one of the most attractive accounts of
function. This account assumes that the function of a trait is what it has been selected for …

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 cumulative open-endedness of human cultures represents a major break with the social
traditions of nonhuman species. As traditions are altered and the modifications retained …

1. Background The notion of replication arose as a concern in the period immediately after
the Second World War (see Figure 1), with the rise of information theory, communication …

Several theories, which attempt to give an account of cumulative culture, emphasize the
importance of high‐fidelity transmission mechanisms as central to human learning. These …

Species' adaptation to their environments occurs via a range of mechanisms of adaptation.
These include genetic adaptations as well as non-traditional inheritance mechanisms such …

In this manifesto for a more comprehensive account of evolution by natural selection (ENS),
we draw on Hull's framework to expand the reach of Darwinian explanations. His approach …