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Re:Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Lamarckism? by latently on Thursday May 11, 2017 @10:48PM (#14321067)
Is fitness emergent, or fundamental? If you didn't discuss this, you should add another year to your PhD!
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Re:Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Lamarckism? by SamBam on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @12:32PM (#14360076)
"Fitness" is simply the name we give to the likelihood that an organism will have multiple generations of descendants.

This value of likelihood is an emergent phenomenon given an environment and an organism.

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Re:Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Lamarckism? by latently on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:09PM (#14413868)
That's not deep enough for my tastes.
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