Replication without replicators |
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Authors: | Bence Nanay |
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Institution: | (1) The Business School, University of Hertfordshire, De Havilland Campus, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK;(2) Department of Marketing and Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense Campus, 5230 Odense M, Denmark |
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Abstract: | According to a once influential view of selection, it consists of repeated cycles of replication and interaction. It has been
argued that this view is wrong: replication is not necessary for evolution by natural selection. I analyze the nine most influential
arguments for this claim and defend the replication–interaction conception of selection against these objections. In order
to do so, however, the replication–interaction conception of selection needs to be modified significantly. My proposal is
that replication is not the copying of an entity, the replicator, but the copying of a property. Thus, we can have a replication
process without there being a replicator that is being copied. |
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