id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_lwpfs2nk4vawzc7u7h62putxle T. Lewens The Natures of Selection 2009 21 .pdf application/pdf 10179 556 60 narrow the focus, by looking at the specific way in which Sober and his defenders have understood the nature of selection and drift, and their status as forces. Sober's way of understanding the cointossing analogy made drift, which is inversely proportional to population size, Sober's understanding of drift fits well with usage among population geneticists. Instead, one should simply ask in what respects drift and selection resemble Newtonian forces, and in what ways they differ, paying attention all the time Sober's own reason for refusing to compare the causal efficacy of drift and selection makes it clear that when he claims that selection is a deterministic force, Sober believes that selection and drift are distinguishable causes of evolutionary change. Sober's position as one that denies that the force of selection is a causal one, then The case undermines Sober's view of the nature of drift and selection in two ./cache/work_lwpfs2nk4vawzc7u7h62putxle.pdf ./txt/work_lwpfs2nk4vawzc7u7h62putxle.txt