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    It is reasonable to conceive of drift and natural selecti... — Carmelics
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    It is reasonable to conceive of drift and natural selection as population-level causes in some cases

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    • 1.Drift and natural selection can depend on indeterministic events
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    • 2.Some cases of frequency-dependent selection warrant population-level causal treatment
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    • 1.Causal explanations in population genetics are fully reducible to organism-level birth, death, and reproductive events without remainder.
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    • 2.Positing population-level causes beyond aggregated individual causes violates the principle of causal parsimony defended by Sober and Lewontin's methodological individualism.
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    • 1.Drift is not a cause but a statistical artifact of sampling, as Matthen and Ariew argue in distinguishing causal from statistical population-level descriptions.
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    • 2.If drift lacks causal efficacy independently of physical forces acting on organisms, treating it as a population-level cause conflates mathematical models with causal mechanisms.
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    Pierrick Bourrat (2018) offers an alternative response to Reisman and Forber; he implies that Reisman and Forber (2005) have overlooked Woodward’s criterion of invariance when they invoke the manipulability account in support of drift as a population-level cause. Invariance in an intervention, Bourrat states, “measures the extent to which a relationship between two variables satisfying the manipulation condition remains stable or unchanged as various other changes are made in the background of
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