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work_pdtrmchcnjhjfolcmxugfxyywy	Anya Plutynski	Explanatory Unification and the Early Synthesis	2005	15	.pdf	application/pdf	6372	385	48	synthesis effected by the founders of theoretical population genetics was unifying and mathematical demonstrations that answer 'how possibly' and 'why necessarily' questions may also count as explanatory. of selection in small populations is not a 'possible story' but a necessary according to Morrison, they disagreed on the qualitative story of how selection operated in populations. and about the optimal means of generating adaptation, theoretical population geneticists in the 1920s and 30s did provide a unified explanation of how In sum, population genetics served to define and delineate which processes are sufficient for evolution, effectively reducing the number we need to take as brute: selection, is part of the dialectic of the advancement of science, and is what the important explanatory work of mathematical theories such as theoretical population genetics consists in. population genetics at least, unification and explanation are not at odds;	./cache/work_pdtrmchcnjhjfolcmxugfxyywy.pdf	./txt/work_pdtrmchcnjhjfolcmxugfxyywy.txt