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Are all bases covered?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Louise Barrett  and
S. Peter Henzi
Louise Barrett
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, Biosciences Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZB [email protected]
S. Peter Henzi
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Bolton Institute, Bolton, BL3 5AB [email protected]
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Abstract

In addition to ensuring that appropriate standards of evidence are employed when attempting to identify adaptations, researchers should investigate all nonevolutionary factors that could potentially explain their results. Evolutionary analyses may be undermined by alternative, non-evolutionary explanations either because not all relevant information is included in an evolutionary analysis, or because inappropriate methods incapable of detecting an adaptation are employed.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 2002 , pp. 506 - 507
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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