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    It is not the case that The Price Equation is more flexible than type recursions for quantifying certain forms of randomness

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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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    • 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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