A clarification (always needed!) of some issues in regards to Sewall Wright's conception of an adaptive landscape....
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Notes on Sewall Wright: the Adaptive Landscape:
My series of posts on the work of Sewall Wright is now approaching its (anti?)climax. The next post, on the shifting balance theory, should be the last. The present note deals with a closely related subject. Wright introduced the concept of the '…
David's penultimate post on Sewall Wright, Notes on Sewall Wright: The Shifting Balance Theory - Part 1:
Two catch-phrases indissolubly linked with Sewall Wright are the adaptive landscape, and the shifting balance. In preparing my note on Wright's concept of the adaptive landscape I was surprised…
Having blown my own trumpet, I should mention that there are a few other articles in the same edition of Biology and Philosophy (which I hadn't seen until now) on Gavrilets' view of adaptive landscapes now on Online First: Massimo Pigliucci has a very nice historical summary of Sewall Wright's…
Notes on Sewall Wright: The Shifting Balance Theory (Part 2):
Part 1 of this note dealt with Sewall Wright's Shifting Balance theory of evolution (the SBT) in its original form, as propounded between 1929 and 1931. This final part deals with subsequent developments in the theory. These include…