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Making Evolutionary Sense of Gaia| title | Making Evolutionary Sense of Gaia |
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| start_date | 2024/09/24 |
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| schedule | 17h-18h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | After briefly describing James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis, I’ll argue that Gaia does not reproduce, or rather that it has what Peter Godfrey-Smith would term “too many parents” to undergo natural selection according to Lewontin’s Recipe. So it does not make sense to most Darwinians. If that recipe were extended to include differential persistence as well as differential reproduction, or if the “gene’s-eye view” of Richard Dawkins as further extended by David Hull and us were adopted, then the Gaia Hypothesis would make sense. That’s what the It’s the song not the singer(s) theory does. |
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| responsibles | Pradeu |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/09/11 10:52 UTC |
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