“Replaying Life's Tape”: Simulations, metaphors, and historicity in Stephen Jay Gould's view of life
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- 作者：David Sepkoski dsepkoski@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Evolutionary biology ; Stephen Jay Gould ; Contingency ; Simulations
- 刊名：Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：August 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：58
- 期：Complete
- 页码：73-81
- 全文大小：1078 K
文摘
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The origin of Stephen Jay Gould's metaphor of “Replaying the tape of life” is explained.
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The history of Gould's participation in evolutionary simulation experiments is discussed.
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Simulations were an outgrowth of early computing in paleontology.
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There is a link between simulations and data models in macroevolutionary analysis.