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Selection: Unexplored and underexplored realms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

David A. Eckerman  and
Steven M. Kemp
David A. Eckerman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270 david-eckerman@unc.edusteve-kemp@unc.edu www.unc.edu/~eckerman www.unc.edu/~skemp/smkScience.html
Steven M. Kemp
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270 david-eckerman@unc.edusteve-kemp@unc.edu www.unc.edu/~eckerman www.unc.edu/~skemp/smkScience.html
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Abstract

A profound problem in viewing operant learning as selection appears to be the identification of replicators. Given the lack of consensus on what constitutes the appropriate unit of analysis for behavior, there may be multiple levels at which the metaphor of selection may be usefully applied. A final difficulty: The elements of selection in the evolution of species are objects. In behavior, they are events.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 536 - 537
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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