Artificial Selection, Sexual Selection, Natural Selection
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Darwin, natural selection, artificial selection, sexual selectionAbstract
In On the Origin of Species Darwin explicitly distinguishes three types of selection: natural, artificial and sexual selection. I will try to show how these three types of selection are related among each other in Darwin’s work. My purpose on this paper has been systematic rather than historiographical. Although the distinction between these different mechanisms of selection is of great importance in Darwin ́s work, my thesis on this paper is that both artificial and sexual selection are not mechanisms which differ from natural selection. I will argue to show that artificial and sexual selection are cases of natural selection and, for this reason, allow its empirical contrastation.
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