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    The Price Equation is more flexible than type recursions ... — Carmelics
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    The Price Equation is more flexible than type recursions for quantifying certain forms of randomness

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    • 1.Randomness from temporally variable selection can be quantified as drift in the Price Equation
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    • 2.The same randomness cannot be quantified by effective population size in a type recursion
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    • 3.Type recursions require treating temporally variable selection as selection, not drift
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    • 1.The Price Equation's 'flexibility' conflates mathematical redescription with genuine explanatory gain, as Nowak & Van Veelen (2011) demonstrate.
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    • 2.Reassigning variance from selection to drift in the Price Equation is a bookkeeping choice, not a discovery about the causal structure of evolution.
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    • 3.A formalism that can absorb any phenomenon by relabeling terms lacks the inferential constraints necessary for genuine scientific explanation.
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    • 1.Type recursions, by forcing temporally variable selection to be represented as selection, preserve the causal distinction between selection and drift that the Price Equation obscures.
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    • 2.Flexibility in partitioning evolutionary causes is epistemically costly when it undermines the ability to identify which actual causal process—sampling error or fitness differences—produced an outcome.
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    The scenario is illuminating because it involves randomness that cannot be quantified by effective population size in a type recursion but can be quantified as such by the drift parameter in Price Equation. When deploying type recursions, we must treat cases of temporally variable selection as cases of selection, but we are under no similar constraint when it comes to the Price Equation.
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