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19What do Sexes Have to do with (Models of) Sexual Selection?Philosophy of Science 1. 2023.Sexes are normally taken to be fundamental categories in biology – many sexually reproducing organisms fall under the categories of female/male. Much research aims at explaining differences between sexes. Sexual selection forms a central framework for explaining “typical” distributions of traits among sexes, and explicating circumstances leading to “reversal”. I claim sexual selection models needn’t make use of sexes, that sexes lack explanatory significance in such models. I offer a framework o…Read more
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Tel Aviv UniversityThe Cohn Institute For History And Philosophy of Science And IdeasPost-doctoral Fellow
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Tel Aviv, Israel