The character concept in evolutionary biology

By Günter P. Wagner. 2001

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Subfields: Genetics, History and Philosophy of Science

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Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “143), but it is important to acknowledge that it is also difficult for biological characters, and this difficulty has not prevented biologists from producing valuable work using the character concept (Wagner, 2000).”
Phenotypic integration in plants (2002, background): “Developing novel functional hypotheses from independent data sets (Wagner 2001) may offer alternative biological explanations when established hypotheses (e.g. Berg’s correlation pleiades) are not supported.”
Integrating animal temperament within ecology and evolution (2007, background): “…(or trait) can be considered as a characteristic of an organism shared by all or some of the individuals of a species that can vary, although not necessarily, among these individuals (we consider character and trait as synonyms; see Wagner, 2001, on the diversity of the character concept).”
Constraints Evolve: Context Dependency of Gene Effects Allows Evolution of Pleiotropy (2015, background): “Realistically, multiple loci across a genetic background will affect the effect size and pleiotropy of a mutation (Carter et al. 2005, Hansen & Wagner 2001, Pavličev et al. 2010).”
Dimensions of Normal Personality as Networks in Search of Equilibrium: You Can't like Parties if you Don't like People (2012, background): “What exactly is a trait? This is a question that has challenged scientists in all disciplines where it has arisen (Wagner, 2001).”
The importance of homology for biology and philosophy (2007, unknown): “…(Brigandt 2002, 2003; Cracraft 2005; de Beer 1971; Donoghue 1992; Gilbert and Bolker 2001; Gilbert et al. 1996; Griffiths, this issue; Laubichler 2000; Love and Raff 2006; Müller 2003; Müller and Newman 1999; Rieppel 2006; Wagner 1989a, 1989b, 1994, 1996, 2001a, 2007; Wagner and Stadler 2003).”
Evolutionary Morphology, Innovation, and the Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology (2003, background): “Part of this difficulty would be addressed by agreement on a character concept in biological research (Wagner 2001), and the importance of a delineated character concept is in part driven by an attempt to genuinely identify ‘new’ characters in lineages (Wagner et al. 2000).”
Developmental evolution as a mechanistic science: the inference from developmental mechanisms to evolutionary processes (2000, background): “1) and that the genetic mechanism for the development of this feature is more likely involved in the fin-limb transition than mechanisms involved in digit development (Wagner and Chiu, 2000).”