Natural selection's core explanatory power rests on mechanisms (mutation, drift, differential reproduction) that may resist set-theoretic reduction without loss of explanatory content.
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(Philosophy of biology, causation of evolutionary change)
An evolutionary process involving indiscriminate sampling; sampling is implicit rather than explicit as a variable in mathematical models of drift
natural selection(Endler's critique of Shanahan's continuum account)
A process standardly requiring heritability as a necessary condition, distinguishable from random drift; when heritability is removed as a condition, natural selection trivially reduces to the observation that phenotypic differences exist