Andrea Gazzola

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Is it correct to consider group selection as non-Darwinian selection?

"There has been a long and bitter controversy as to whether groups as cohesive wholes can serve as targets of selection. The answer is “it depends.” There are different kinds of assemblages of...

09 September 2019 430 9 View

What kind of relation is there between the Hutchinson Niche Concept and norm of reaction for phenotypic plasticity?

The Hutchinson niche is an n-dimensional hypervolume, where the dimensions are environmental conditions and resources, that define the requirements of an individual or a species to practice its...

07 July 2014 9,365 4 View

"Pubblish or perish"! What's wrong with this?

Everyone seems to agree that this phrase describes how science works today, and no-one much likes it. Pressure on scientists to publish has led to a situation where any paper, however bad, can now...

06 June 2014 1,160 3 View