Fitness and Prediction in Evolutionary Theory

Pence, Charles
(2017) London School of Economics Seminar — Location: London, England

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I argue that both careful conceptual analysis and recent results from mathematical biology cast doubt on the utility of predictive fitness. We have privileged a role for fitness that it in fact is unable to play. Whatever else fitness may be, it is not (or at least is not very) predictive.
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Pence, C. (2017). Fitness and Prediction in Evolutionary Theory. London School of Economics Seminar, London, England. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/91983