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  • noun Plural form of interactor.

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Examples

  • Waters actually offers, right before the t-allele case, a suggestion that a Williams's type analysis could be based on an application of Lloyd's additivity criterion for identifying interactors, which is strictly hierarchical (Waters 1991, p. 563; Lloyd [1988] 1994, Ch. 5).

    Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

  • The student avatars are being controlled by "interactors"

    Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas 2010

  • It is generally (objectively) shared because the data doesn't change among observers/interactors.

    A Conundrum 2008

  • Both Dawkins (1976) and Hull (1980) distinguish between replicators and vehicles (or interactors).

    Replication Hull, David 2008

  • Those of us beyond the magic age of 40 are mostly viewers and consumers, not creators or interactors.

    “Generation MySpace” 2007

  • The intercepts allow an analyst to infer relationships between subjects that are the interactors in an intercept.

    Issues Around the NSA Domestic Surveillance Program 2006

  • In other words, lineages were treated as interactors.

    Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

  • Although this debate remains pertinent to the choice of state space of genetical model, it has been eclipsed by concerns about interactors in evolutionary genetics.

    Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

  • Dawkins 'arguments are indeed damaging to the Central theorem, but they are ineffective against other approaches that define units of selection as interactors.

    Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

  • Note that the “interactor question” does not involve attributing adaptations or benefits to the interactors, or indeed, to any candidate unit of selection.

    Units and Levels of Selection Lloyd, Elisabeth 2005

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