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work_vc2qa6ocwfd2nc7eux7ysmhwfi	Alex Rosenberg	Are Homologies (Selected Effect or Causal Role) Function Free?*	2009	28	.pdf	application/pdf	12530	743	55	Are Homologies (Selected Effect or Causal Role) Function Free? This article argues that at least very many judgments of homology rest on prior attributions of selected-effect (SE) function, and that many of the "parts" of biological very important biological kinds—including homologous kinds—are, constitutively, SE functional kinds. case, such morphological criteria could perhaps suffice for prior specification of the similarities to be explained, and they are also highly suggestive of homology. make SE functions (of developmental and intermediate structures) indispensable for character individuation, as in the case of the inner ear bones, homology against a set of arguments designed to show that all biological categories are defined, at least in part, by selection function. the view that, "unless anatomy, physiology, molecular biology, developmental biology, and so forth turn their attention to specifically evolutionary questions, they investigate function in the causal sense" (Griffiths homologous kinds of traits are in part constituted by SE functions. functions in classifying these traits as homologous, because causal-role	./cache/work_vc2qa6ocwfd2nc7eux7ysmhwfi.pdf	./txt/work_vc2qa6ocwfd2nc7eux7ysmhwfi.txt