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work_um6tyhx7ufgupoemabj3572pb4	Angela Potochnik	Optimality Modeling and Explanatory Generality	2007	15	.pdf	application/pdf	5119	299	45	contexts, optimality and game-theoretic models best explain some central types of The optimality approach offers a way to model natural selection purely phenotypically, without directly representing the system of genetic transmission. below, I think that in some important contexts, optimality models best explain that, in some cases, are better than other types of explanations, including those offered by (sufficiently accurate) models incorporating genetic information. The conditions favor explanations that focus only on what I will call a modular part of the causal process that led to the event to be explained. In certain circumstances, optimality models meet the conditions for best explanations that I set out above. The contexts of inquiry in which optimality models best explain is, optimality models are maximally general explanations of the designated evolutionary phenomena, in the designated contexts of inquiry, within the limits created This is, of course, not to say that optimality models are always the best explanations for evolutionary change.	./cache/work_um6tyhx7ufgupoemabj3572pb4.pdf	./txt/work_um6tyhx7ufgupoemabj3572pb4.txt