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q-bio.PE2015
Similarities as Evidence for Common Ancestry -- A Likelihood Epistemology
Elliott Sober, Mike Steel
Darwin claims in the {\em Origin} that similarity is evidence for common ancestry, but that adaptive similarities are "almost valueless" as evidence. This claim seems reasonable fo…
q-bio.PE2013★ 22 cited
Time and Knowability in Evolutionary Processes
Elliott Sober, Mike Steel
Historical sciences like evolutionary biology reconstruct past events by using the traces that the past has bequeathed to the present. The Markov Chain Convergence Theorem and the…