Some contemporary critics, however, have objected that, even treated as a metaphor, "natural selection" is misleading.
"The metaphors, the selection of images, the interaction between men and women, the fragments of narrative: the gender politics were very certain, very strong, very definite.
Jacoby, Kelley, and McElree (1999) has used the metaphors early selection and late correction to describe two different types of control processes.
I have suggested that neo-Darwinism is not a refined and upgraded version of Darwinism, a narrowing of vision with almost exclusive focus on only one of Darwin's metaphors, natural selection.
The Red Queen from Lewis Carroll's tale 'Through the looking glass' is commonly used as a metaphor for selection-induced rapid evolution [ 1- 3].
Zimmer never goes there... Zimmer decided to skip any mention of Sir Pat Bateson cautioning about overuse of the "metaphor" of natural selection and saying further that "natural selection is not an agent".
Examples are selections using the lasso metaphor or rectangular selections.
In the case of "natural selection," the metaphor points toward, and leads one to ask questions about, features that have adaptive value that increase the chances that the individual (or species) will survive; in particular it draws attention to how the adaptive value of the feature lies in the particular function it performs.
The symbols used by the cellular telephone companies in Tanzania seemed to influence the selection of metaphors for the practice.
The selection of a metaphor may guide the conceptualisation of the learning experience in terms of activities, timing, tools, collaboration, assessment, outcomes, support, and location.
