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Lineage Explanations: Explaining How Biological Mechanisms Change

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2009

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Calcott, Brett

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Oxford University Press

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This paper describes a pattern of explanation prevalent in the biological sciences that I call a 'lineage explanation'. The aim of these explanations is to make plausible certain trajectories of change through phenotypic space. They do this by laying out

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/50236

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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10.1093/bjps/axn047

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2037-12-31

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