Dawkinsian Replicator Simulacrum
The gene's-eye view as a change of coordinates
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A bird gives an alarm call and you have called it a puzzle. Move the observer: ask not why this individual pays a cost, but in what circumstances copies of an allele increase. Nothing about the world changed. Where were you standing?
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- The gene's-eye view as a change of coordinates
- The extended phenotype
- Arms races and the asymmetry of cost
- What a figure licenses and what it does not
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