Evolutionary adaptation and ontogenetic adaptation: Is the distinction still sustainable?
The differentiation between the notions of evolutionary adaptation and ontogenetic adaptation may require some precisions that go beyond those introduced in their more usual presentations. But recognizing this does not lead either to invalidate this distinction or to make it less clear. On the contr...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/afjor/article/view/32838 |
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| Sumario: | The differentiation between the notions of evolutionary adaptation and ontogenetic adaptation may require some precisions that go beyond those introduced in their more usual presentations. But recognizing this does not lead either to invalidate this distinction or to make it less clear. On the contrary, these precisions, all of them associated with the notion of heritability, allow characterizations of both notions that are clearer than the usual ones and that avoid the temptation to think of them as nothing more than the ideal and impossible poles of a gradation in which any clear distinction is dissolved. |
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