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HPASS: “One Kind of Adaptationism” – Rose Novick, University of Washington

January 17, 2025 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Location TBD & Zoom RSVP HERE   Join us on Friday, January 17, 2025 for a talk by Rose Novick, University of Washington, as part of the History, Philosophy, and Science of Science (HPASS) speaker series. Location TBD.   One Kind of Adaptationism   There is only kind of adaptationism: explanatory adaptationism. Explanatory adaptationism claims that adaptation is the “big question” in evolutionary biology, and natural selection is the “big answer”. In recent decades, philosophers of biology have largely come to agree, first, that explanatory adaptationism is only one kind of adaptationism among many...