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Selection as a cause versus the causes of selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

A. Charles Catania
A. Charles Catania
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250 catania@umbc.edu
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Abstract

Hull et al. rightly point out the special character of selection as a causal mode, but ironically they seem to force selection back into traditional causal modes by decomposing it into replication, variation, and environmental interaction. Many processes are selective, and a taxonomy of a broad range of kinds of selection may be preferable to narrowing the applicability of the term.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 533
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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