Discussion: On The Propensity Definition of Fitness
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 49 (2) , 268-273
- https://doi.org/10.1086/289056
Abstract
In the insightful and searching paper of Mills and Beatty (1979) the following definition of ‘fitness’, as the term figures in the theory of natural selection, is offered:The [individual] fitness of an organism x in environment E equals n =dfn is the expected number of descendants which x will leave in E.Keywords
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