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    Challenges→The compositional account explains how collections of live individuals may evolve.

    If evolutionary change can originate from wholesale compositional reorganization rather than mutation of existing informational carriers, the account's explanatory scope is radically incomplete.

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    Compositional reorganization(as used in philosophy of biology)
    A rearrangement or restructuring of the basic parts or components that make something up, rather than changing those parts themselves.
    Evolutionary change(what natural selection produces)
    When a population of living things gradually develops new characteristics or traits over many generations.
    Explanatory scope(as used in epistemology and philosophy of science)
    How much ground an explanation covers—in other words, how many different situations or phenomena it can successfully account for or explain.
    Informational carriers(as used in philosophy of biology and genetics)
    The physical things that store and pass along genetic instructions—essentially DNA and genes that contain the blueprint for life.
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    (as used in evolutionary biology)
    A random change in an organism's genetic code that can create new traits or variations that might be passed to offspring.
    Radically incomplete(as used in philosophy of science)
    Missing a huge, fundamental part of what's needed; so incomplete that it fails to explain something important in a basic way.

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