id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_i2xzu6rf7jagzclcw577efbxcq Jun Otsuka Causal Foundations of Evolutionary Genetics 2014 37 .pdf application/pdf 8851 845 63 To address this question the present paper builds well-defined causal models that underlie standard equations in evolutionary genetics. causal reconstruction of the evolutionary principles shows adaptive evolution as a genuine causal process, where fitness and selection are both to the causal models obtained in Section 4, I will show there are some interventions on selection and fitness that affect evolutionary outcomes. process or not — is the question as to whether its key concepts, most notably fitness and selection, identify a cause of evolutionary change. (2006), for example, argues that selection is a population-level cause of evolution, while Matthen and Ariew (2009) and Lewens (2010) deny any causal In evolutionary genetics, it is well known that a change in moments (e.g. mean) of a population from one generation to the next is completely described by the Price equation (Robertson, 1966; Price, 1970). ./cache/work_i2xzu6rf7jagzclcw577efbxcq.pdf ./txt/work_i2xzu6rf7jagzclcw577efbxcq.txt