Adaptationism and Optimality: Adaptation, Phylogenetic Inertia, and the Method of Controlled Comparisons

By S. Orzack, Elliott Sober. 2001

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Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Bayesian just-so stories in psychology and neuroscience. (2012, background): “For three ways of viewing the relation between evolution and optimality, see Godfrey-Smith (2001).”
• Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior (2006, unknown): “Practitioners would use modeling to identify an optimal strategy for an animal facing a given number of foraging options, and then compare this to the strategy actually chosen by the animal (Maynard Smith, 1978; Orzack and Sober, 2001; Stephens and Krebs, 1991).”
• Constraint (2020, background): “…concept of constraint plays an important role, for instance, in the criticisms to adaptationism, in the discussion regarding the relevance of stasis and other macroevolutionary patterns, or in the morphologically oriented proposals of structuralism or complexity theories (see Orzack & Sober 2001).”
• The Ecological Niche: History and Recent Controversies (2015, background): “(On adaptationism, see Orzack and Sober 2001 , in particular the chapter by Godfrey-Smith.)”
• Tempo and mode in evolution: phylogenetic inertia, adaptation and comparative methods (2002, unknown): “Attempting to move beyond a simple pattern definition, Orzack & Sober (2001) define phylogenetic inertia as an influence of trait values of ancestors on the trait values of their descendants.”
• Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “Whatever the influence of non-adaptational factors (see sect.”
• TESTING FOR PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL IN COMPARATIVE DATA: BEHAVIORAL TRAITS ARE MORE LABILE (2003, unknown): “…which are inconsistently defined, both conceptually and operationally (e.g., see Antonovics and van Tienderen 1991; McKitrick 1993; Wagner and Schwenk 2000; Orzack and Sober 2001; Reeve and Sherman 2001) and whose original use was rather different from current use (Blomberg and Garland 2002).”