Footnotes

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Derived from material first presented in a series of three rather indigestible essays, previously available only in the form of internal technical reports (McMullin 1992a, 1992b, 1992c). Presented at the 3rd. European Conference on Artificial Life, 4-6 June 1995, Granada, Spain. This complete HTML version of the paper is available as a single archive file rpl-l2h.tar.gz (36 KByte) which can be conveniently downloaded for local and/or offline browsing. The camera-ready version of the paper is available in postscript format in this FTP directory.

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See (McMullin 1992a, Section 3); cf. "Darwinian actor" (Gould 1982).

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By implication, we are here talking exclusively about "Darwinian adaptations" : that is, "adaptations" brought about by Darwinian evolution.

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There is, of course, never any guarantee that Darwinian evolution will lead to increases in "adaptation" - unless one wishes to interpret "adaptation" in such a way as to fall victim to one of the infamous Darwinian tautologies (McMullin 1992b, Sections 3.1, 5.1).

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Note that I use the word in a probabilistic sense (McMullin 1992a, Section 6.1).

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I do sincerely regret this further proliferation of prefixes; but it seems to be in the nature of the problems at hand to demand unusually precise vocabulary. If you doubt this, I can only point again at the terminological confusions documented earlier.

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That is, it is not generally the case that such a process would meet all the requirements for selective displacement to go through; in particular, it may not meet the requirement of a consistent selective bias (independent of relative S-lineage size).

McMullin@eeng.dcu.ie
Mon Mar 4 14:08:30 GMT 1996