The Beanbag Genetics Controversy: Towards a synthesis of opposing views of natural selection

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-184

  De Winter, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive landscape; Beanbag genetics; Epistasis; Gene interactionism; Genic selectionism; Multilocus selection; Natural selection; Peripatric speciation

Indexed keywords

MARTES PENNANTI;

BEANBAG GENETICS; EPISTATIC INTERACTION; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0031405303     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006590002756     Document Type: Article

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