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An account of the error made in the attempt to identify relative 
adaptedness with any particular variable, e.g. height, strength, 
fecundity, or energetic efficiency is found in Robert Brandon, 
" 
"Adaptation and Evolutionary Theory", _Studies in the History and 
Philosophy of Science_, 9: 181-155.  See also Alexander Rosenberg, 
"The Supervenience of Biological Concepts", _Phil. of Science_, 
45: 358-386  (both dated 1978), Alexander Rosenberg, _The Structure 
of Biological Science_, Cambridge:  Cambridge U. Press, 1985, and 
Robert Brandon, _Adaptation and Environment_, Princeton:  Princeton U. 
Press, 1990. 
 
 
Greg Ransom 
Dept. of Philosophy 
UC-Riverside 
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