کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4499592 1319037 2006 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Fisherian and Wrightian perspectives in evolutionary genetics and model-mediated imposition of theoretical assumptions
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک (عمومی)
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Fisherian and Wrightian perspectives in evolutionary genetics and model-mediated imposition of theoretical assumptions
چکیده انگلیسی
I investigate how theoretical assumptions, pertinent to different perspectives and operative during the modeling process, are central in determining how nature is actually taken to be. I explore two different models by Michael Turelli and Steve Frank of the evolution of parasite-mediated cytoplasmic incompatility, guided, respectively, by Fisherian and Wrightian perspectives. Since the two models can be shown to be commensurable both with respect to mathematics and data, I argue that the differences between them in the (1) mathematical presentation of the models, (2) explanations, and (3) objectified ontologies stem neither from differences in mathematical method nor the employed data, but from differences in the theoretical assumptions, especially regarding ontology, already present in the respective perspectives. I use my “set up, mathematically manipulate, explain, and objectify” (SMEO) account of the modeling process to track the model-mediated imposition of theoretical assumptions. I conclude with a discussion of the general implications of my analysis of these models for the controversy between Fisherian and Wrightian perspectives.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Theoretical Biology - Volume 240, Issue 2, 21 May 2006, Pages 218-232
نویسندگان
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