Stephan Kubicki (ANU): Selection & drift & causal robustness
Beatty 1984 got people thinking about how natural selection and random drift differ as causes of evolution. I think it is something like this: evolution by natural selection occurs when the causes of evolution are sufficiently robust; evolution by drift occurs when they're not. The focus will be on saying what "sufficiently robust" means, so the talk will end up being about as much about causal robustness in general, as it will about selection and drift.
Location
Coombs Seminar Room B