Recent arguments concerning the nature of causation in evolutionary theory, now often
known as the debate between the'causalist'and'statisticalist'positions, have involved …

Ever since its inception, the theory of evolution has been reified into an “-ism”: Darwinism.
Although biologists today, by and large, do not use the term “Darwinism” in their research, it …

Darwinism designates a distinctive form of evolutionary explanation for the history and
diversity of life on earth. Its original formulation is provided in the first edition of On the Origin …

The idea of 'reversion'or 'atavism'has a peculiar history. For many authors in the late-
nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries–including Darwin, Galton, Pearson, Weismann …

This paper is about the relationship between RA Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural
selection (FTNS) and the two major pieces that Fisher wrote on indeterminism,“ …

The development of a biological notion of “population” over the first century of the theory of
evolution has been commented upon by a number of historians and philosophers of biology …

As one of the oldest continuously publishing journals in statistics (published since 1901),
Biometrika provides a unique window onto the history of statistics and its epistemic …

One claim found in the received historiography of the biometrical school (comprised
primarily of Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, and WFR Weldon) is that one of the biometricians' …

A recent debate over the causal foundations of evolutionary theory pits those who believe
that natural selection causally explains long-term, adaptive population change against those …

The ninth and tenth chapters of the Origin mark a profound, if perhaps difficult to detect, shift
in the book's argumentative structure. In the previous few chapters and in the ninth, Darwin …