Talk:Bias in the introduction of variation

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• (done) standard practice per wikipedia naming guidelines is to choose one name for the theory and use redirects for the other names. I think this applies to "arrival bias" as an alternative name.
• Does this need to address Andreas Wagner's book "Arrival of the Fittest"? If only via disambiguation?
• Does this need to address Svensson and Berger (2019) or Svensson (2022)?
  • So far this is addressed as misinterpretation rather than actual criticism, e.g., the section on "Facilitated variation" rejects the strawman theory of mut bias as an independent force of adaptation.
• this says that the case has not been made in regard to classic phenotypic features (visible morphology and behavior of charismatic megafauna) but is missing any references to relevant empirical work, e.g., the work of Felix, Braendle, et al. on worms. Admittedly this is a small body of work and it is not entirely clear how closely it supports the theory as opposed to some other theory
• the empirical case does not refer to the mutational target size work from Bailey, et al 2017 and 2018 that found significant effects of mutation on parallelism