Assessing the Fitness Landscape Revolution
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According to Pigliucci and Kaplan, there is a revolution underway in how we understand fitness landscapes. Recent models suggest that a perennial problem in these landscapes-how to get from one peak across a fitness valley to another peak-is, in fact, non-existent. In this paper I assess the structure and the extent of Pigliucci and Kaplan's proposed revolution and argue for two points. First, I provide an alternative interpretation of what underwrites this revolution, motivated by some recent...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Calcott, Brett | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-07T22:13:38Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0169-3867 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/17095 | |
dc.description.abstract | According to Pigliucci and Kaplan, there is a revolution underway in how we understand fitness landscapes. Recent models suggest that a perennial problem in these landscapes-how to get from one peak across a fitness valley to another peak-is, in fact, non-existent. In this paper I assess the structure and the extent of Pigliucci and Kaplan's proposed revolution and argue for two points. First, I provide an alternative interpretation of what underwrites this revolution, motivated by some recent work on model-based science. Second, I show that the implications of this revolution need to carefully assessed depending on question being asked, for peak-shifting is not central to all evolutionary questions that fitness landscapes have been used to explore. | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers | |
dc.source | Biology and Philosophy | |
dc.subject | Keywords: assessment method; exploration; landscape; modeling Evo-devo; Fitness landscapes; Models; Morphospace; Neutral change; Speciation | |
dc.title | Assessing the Fitness Landscape Revolution | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 23 | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 220303 - Environmental Philosophy | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u2519155xPUB1 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Calcott, Brett, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 5 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 639 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 657 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10539-008-9127-9 | |
dc.date.updated | 2016-02-24T09:51:17Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-59849114894 | |
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