Some fitnesses can be measured on individuals and used to infer trait fitnesses. The latter reflect actual/possible future organisms, other elements in population-environment systems. I argue that researcher interests specify what count as real population-environment systems and thus selection. 8/9
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[I hope this very brief sketch is at least intriguing. Happy to answer questions, discuss further.] 9/9
Charles Pence, BJPS Review of Books, 2024, https://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/pence-on-abrams
Michael Ruse, Quarterly Review of Biology 99(4), 2024, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/733298