Pierrick Bourrat: Dissolving the Fitness-Decoupling Paradox in Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality
- Datum: 11.05.2018
- Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 12:00
- Vortragende(r): Pierrick Bourrat von der Macquarie University, Sydney, Australien
- Mehr Informationen über den Vortragenden unter https://mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_philosophy/staff/pierrick_bourrat/
- Ort: MPI Plön
- Raum: Hörsaal
- Gastgeber: Paul Rainey
Abstract (auf Englisch):
When an evolutionary transition in individuality occurs, the
fitnesses
of the lower-level individuals that compose a higher-level
individual seems to
progressively decouple from that of this higher-level
individual: At the end of
the transition, if the fitness of the higher-level level is
high, the fitnesses
of the lower-level entities that compose it are low, and vice
versa. On the face
of it, this is a paradoxical situation. In this talk, I show,
that once one
begins to think about fitness in ecological rather than in
purely statistical terms,
the paradox can readily be dissolved.