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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Causal distinction(in philosophy of action): The idea that there's a real difference between explaining something by its purpose versus explaining it by physical causes that came before it.
Selection(as the mechanism being applied across different domains): A process where certain traits or characteristics survive and spread because they work better than others, like how the strongest animals are more likely to survive and have offspring.
The Price Equation(evolutionary biology and population genetics): A mathematical formula developed by George Price that describes how traits change in a population, but it combines the effects of both selection and random chance in a way that makes them hard to separate.
Type recursions(evolutionary biology and population genetics): A mathematical or logical method where a process repeats in a structured way, with each repetition following the same pattern or 'type'—like a recipe that calls for itself as an ingredient.

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