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work_gogl5p5z7nbznki7fsd64q55zq	Robert Northcott	Walsh on Causes and Evolution*	2010	11	.pdf	application/pdf	4843	394	62	he supports viewing selection and drift as mere statistical summaries of 1. I follow Walsh in considering explicitly only selection and drift among the evolutionary forces, although analogous arguments apply to others also. most commonly applied to special sciences (e.g., Woodward 2003), selection and drift both satisfy sufficient conditions for causation. On the causalist view, in contrast, the problem is immediately resolved by deeming these explanations examples of causal explanation. For these reasons, I endorse viewing selection and drift as causes and, example, and selection and drift, are merely particular instances of this general fact. the description dependence of selection's and drift's strengths is no argument against viewing them as causally explanatory. exactly the same token, it is sufficient here for the macrocausalist if selection and drift can be said to provide merely causal explanations as that causation is description dependent or else that drift and selection are	./cache/work_gogl5p5z7nbznki7fsd64q55zq.pdf	./txt/work_gogl5p5z7nbznki7fsd64q55zq.txt