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2026-02-04
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Molecular approaches have revolutionised evolutionary biology since the late 50s. Today, molecular evolutionary biology is an integrated hybrid of mechanistic, mathematical and datafied research. I aim to show that the molecular conceptualisation of evolutionary dynamics provided by this hybrid has a significant mechanistic foundation. I shall first outline the biochemical roots of this foundation. Then, I shall illustrate how evolutionary causal chains are conceptualised in contemporary molecular evolution research. I shall finally argue that a fundamental innovation of molecular evolutionary models is dependent on the mechanistic understanding of the mutational and developmental processes causing the origin of traits. Thus, molecular evolutionary biology integrates proximate and ultimate causes, providing a variety of how-possibly and how-actually explanations.
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This is the accepted manuscript of the article. The registered version was first published in Synthese 207, 74, is available online at the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-026-05463-7
Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo. La versión registrada fue publicada por primera vez en Synthese 207, 74, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-026-05463-7
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molecular evolution, mutational event, developmental event, sorting process, mechanistic explanation, how-actually explanation
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Vecchi, D. 2026. Molecular evolutionary models and mechanistic explanation. Synthese 207, 74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-026-05463-7
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Facultad de Filosofía
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Lógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia
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