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Much of the impetus for "the dynamic view" of evolution comes from Elliott Sober's 1984 book The Nature of Selection. Since then there have been many papers that specifically address the issue of whether or not natural selection and drift are forces or perhaps just causes. Many of them defend what they explicitly call "The Statistical View". A few relevant papers are below

• Walsh, Chasing Shadows: Natural Selection and Adaptation
• Walsh, Ariew, and Lewens, The Trials of Life
• Matthen and Ariew, Two Ways of Thinking about Fitness and Natural Selection
• Lewens, The Natures of Selection
• Matthen and Ariew, Selection and Causation

• Stephens, Selection, Drift, and the Forces of Evolution
• Millstein, Are Random Drift and Natural Selection Conceptually Distinct
• Millstein, Natural Selection as a Population Level Cause
  • Millstein uses data from the following sources:
  • Rank, Hierarchical Analysis of Genetic Differentiation
  • Dahlhoff and Rank, Functional and Physiological Consequences of Genetic Variation
  • Rank and Dalhoff, Allele Frequency Shifts in Response to Climate Change
• Sober, from The Nature of Selection, (selection of vs. selection for)
• Bouchard and Rosenberg, Fitness, Probability and the Principles of Natural Selection
• Shapiro and Sober, Epiphenomenalism the Do's and Don't's
• Millstein and Skipper, (Mis)representing Mathematical Models: Drift as a Physical Process
  • Here is the blog for the journal where Ariew, Matthen, and others respond