TY - JOUR
T1 - Puzzles for ZFEL, McShea and Brandon's zero force evolutionary law
AU - Barrett, Martin
AU - Clatterbuck, Hayley
AU - Goldsby, Michael
AU - Helgeson, Casey
AU - McLoone, Brian
AU - Pearce, Trevor
AU - Sober, Elliott
AU - Stern, Reuben
AU - Weinberger, Naftali
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - In their 2010 book, Biology's First Law, D. McShea and R. Brandon present a principle that they call "ZFEL," the zero force evolutionary law. ZFEL says (roughly) that when there are no evolutionary forces acting on a population, the population's complexity (i. e., how diverse its member organisms are) will increase. Here we develop criticisms of ZFEL and describe a different law of evolution; it says that diversity and complexity do not change when there are no evolutionary causes.
AB - In their 2010 book, Biology's First Law, D. McShea and R. Brandon present a principle that they call "ZFEL," the zero force evolutionary law. ZFEL says (roughly) that when there are no evolutionary forces acting on a population, the population's complexity (i. e., how diverse its member organisms are) will increase. Here we develop criticisms of ZFEL and describe a different law of evolution; it says that diversity and complexity do not change when there are no evolutionary causes.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10539-012-9321-7
DO - 10.1007/s10539-012-9321-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84865416183
SN - 0169-3867
VL - 27
SP - 723
EP - 735
JO - Biology and Philosophy
JF - Biology and Philosophy
IS - 5
ER -