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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2024

Tautology explains evolution without variation and selection. A Comment on: 'An evolutionary process without variation and selection' (2021), by Gabora

István Zachar, Jakab Máté, Szabolcs Számadó

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

István ZacharHUN-REN Institute of Evolution, Centre for Ecological Research, Konkoly-Thege Miklós út 29-33, H-1121 , Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-3505-0628
Jakab MátéHUN-REN Institute of Evolution, Centre for Ecological Research, Konkoly-Thege Miklós út 29-33, H-1121 , Budapest, Hungary.
Szabolcs SzámadóCSS-RECENS, Centre for Social Science, Tóth Kálmán u. 4, H-1097 , Budapest, Hungary.

Funding

János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of SciencesÚNKP-23-5 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Culture and Innovation from the source of the National Research Development and Innovation Fund
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gabora and Steel (Gabora L, Steel M. 2021 An evolutionary process without variation and selection.

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionSelection, GeneticModels, BiologicalModels, GeneticDarwinian dynamicsevolutionpercolationpopulation dynamicsselection

Identifiers

PMID39291495
PMCPMC11463229

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