Biological Adaptation: A Reply

1 December 1972

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science

Vol. 39 (4) , 529-532
https://doi.org/10.1086/288478

Abstract

Michael Ruse [3] has criticized the distinction between biological function and evolutionary adaptation that I argued for in my article “Biological Adaptation” [2]. I shall show below that Ruse's criticisms are not, for the most part, well taken and that the distinction remains as I made it.

Keywords

ADAPTATION
FUNCTION
REPLY MICHAEL
DISTINCTION
RUSE
EVOLUTIONARY
TAKEN
MADE

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