Natural selection and the limitations of environmental resources.
In this paper, I am clarifying and defending my argument (Nanay 2005) in favor of the claim that cumulative selection can explain adaptation provided that the environmental resources are limited. Further, elaborate on what this limitation of environmental resources means and why it is relevant for the explanatory power of natural selection.
Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp, D 413, Grote Kauwenberg 18, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium. bn206@cam.ac.uk
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D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004777:Environment; D012641:Selection, Genetic