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Shared adaptiveness is not group adaptation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2013

Cédric Paternotte
Cédric Paternotte*
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Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft, Lehrstuhl für Logik und Sprachphilosophie, D-80539 München, Germany. cedric.paternotte@lrz.uni-muenchen.de http://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html
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Abstract

Climate stresses and monetary resources seem to lead to different collective adaptations. However, the reference to adaptation and to ambiguous collective dimensions appears premature; populations may entertain nothing more than shared adaptiveness. At this point, the intricacy of the underlying evolutionary processes (cultural selection, fitness-utility decoupling) very much obscures any diagnosis based on correlations.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 499 - 500
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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