Table of Contents
Fitness The Dynamics of Design
Darwin’s Propositions
"Survival of the Fittest"
"Survival of the Fittest" Tautology
What Does "Survival" Mean?
Two Senses of "Fitness"
Other Uses of “Fitness”
“Individual”
Transitions in Fitness Levels
Factors in Evolutionary Transitions
Approaches to Understanding Fitness
Adequacy Criterion
Propensity Approach Overview
Propensity Approach Method
Propensity Approach Problems
Heterozygote Superiority
Heterozygote Superiority
Evolution of Selfing, Model
Evolution of Selfing, Conclusions
Basic Distinction
Model of Natural Selection
Equation as Casual Statement
Condition for Selection
Natural Selection with Sex
Condition for Increase When Rare, With Sex
Natural Selection Paradigms Model
Intra-Specific Density Dependence, Mortality
Intra-Specific Density Dependence, Reproduction
Condition for Increase When Rare
Survival of the Fittest (u = v)
Darwin on Adaptationist Paradigm
Cost of Rarity (u > v)
Cost of Commonness (u < v)
Darwin on Cost of Commonness
Order in Selective Systems
Darwin's Dilemmas
Darwin's Dilemmas
Darwin on Missing Links
Missing Links in Habitat Space
Missing Links in Time
Species Problem
Sex and the Distinctness of Species
Evolutionary Explanations Based on Natural Selection
Overall Adaptedness: Examples
Overall Adaptedness of Organisms Doesn't Exist
Kin Selection & Overall Adaptedness of Organisms
Schema for Natural Selection
Example: Magnetized Die
Explanation and F-fitness
What is Fitness?
Present Adaptiveness of Adaptive Capacities
Summary: Fitness
Summary: Natural Selection Paradigms
Summary: Sex and the Distinctness of Species