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Multiply concurrent replication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

David L. Hull  and
Sigrid S. Glenn
David L. Hull*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, IL 60208
Sigrid S. Glenn*
Affiliation:
Department of Behavior Analysis, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203
*
d-hull@northwestern.edu
glenn@scs.unt.edu
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Abstract:

If selection is interpreted as involving repeated cycles of replication, variation, and environmental interaction so structured that environmental interaction causes replication to be differential, then selection in gene-based biological evolution and the reaction of the immune system to antigens are relatively unproblematic examples of selection processes. Operant learning and cultural evolution pose more serious problems. In this response we deal with operant learning as a selection process.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 902 - 904
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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Footnotes

Commentary on David L. Hull, Rodney E. Langman & Sigrid S. Glenn (2001). A general account of selection: Biology, immunology, and behavior. BBS 24(3):511–573.

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