The morphogenesis of evolutionary developmental biology
... and evolutionary biology are becoming integrated through developmental biology. More specifically, they are becoming integrated through evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). If this new integration is successful, it would constitute a revolution in our way of thinking about the origins of b ...
... and evolutionary biology are becoming integrated through developmental biology. More specifically, they are becoming integrated through evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). If this new integration is successful, it would constitute a revolution in our way of thinking about the origins of b ...
The morphogenesis of evolutionary developmental biology
... and evolutionary biology are becoming integrated through developmental biology. More specifically, they are becoming integrated through evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). If this new integration is successful, it would constitute a revolution in our way of thinking about the origins of b ...
... and evolutionary biology are becoming integrated through developmental biology. More specifically, they are becoming integrated through evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). If this new integration is successful, it would constitute a revolution in our way of thinking about the origins of b ...
Mutual Aid Theory and Human Development
... Both Huxley and Kropotkin use Darwin’s theory of natural selection as a central theme in their arguments. It would be a mistake to assume that simply because Kropotkin does not reflect the more popular Malthusian based view of natural selection that the concept is not integral to his theory of mutua ...
... Both Huxley and Kropotkin use Darwin’s theory of natural selection as a central theme in their arguments. It would be a mistake to assume that simply because Kropotkin does not reflect the more popular Malthusian based view of natural selection that the concept is not integral to his theory of mutua ...
Evolutionary Challenges of Extreme Environments (Part 2)
... usually been considered the ultimate goal of physics and chemistry (Waterman, ’68). Perhaps their evasiveness in biology stems from the quite special entities with which it deals. Living beings have many complex components, dynamically interconnected in multiple ways. These are clearly rather differ ...
... usually been considered the ultimate goal of physics and chemistry (Waterman, ’68). Perhaps their evasiveness in biology stems from the quite special entities with which it deals. Living beings have many complex components, dynamically interconnected in multiple ways. These are clearly rather differ ...
Evolutionary rescue by beneficial mutations in environments that
... couple of generations after which it appears, the approximation is most accurate if js sk j 1 during this initial period. A more general version of equations (2.3) and (2.4) can be found in Peischl & Kirkpatrick [46]. There are two immediate implications. The first is that establishment is only ...
... couple of generations after which it appears, the approximation is most accurate if js sk j 1 during this initial period. A more general version of equations (2.3) and (2.4) can be found in Peischl & Kirkpatrick [46]. There are two immediate implications. The first is that establishment is only ...
Evolutionary rescue by beneficial mutations in
... couple of generations after which it appears, the approximation is most accurate if js sk j 1 during this initial period. A more general version of equations (2.3) and (2.4) can be found in Peischl & Kirkpatrick [46]. There are two immediate implications. The first is that establishment is only ...
... couple of generations after which it appears, the approximation is most accurate if js sk j 1 during this initial period. A more general version of equations (2.3) and (2.4) can be found in Peischl & Kirkpatrick [46]. There are two immediate implications. The first is that establishment is only ...
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... frequently in an evolutionary process that often leads to macroevolutionary trends and in which organisms are said to be optimally/almost optimally “designed” for the habitats they inhabit. Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution (ONCE), a new perspective on biological evolution that is proposed he ...
... frequently in an evolutionary process that often leads to macroevolutionary trends and in which organisms are said to be optimally/almost optimally “designed” for the habitats they inhabit. Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution (ONCE), a new perspective on biological evolution that is proposed he ...
Apomictic Parthenogenesis and the Pattern of the
... practically any other sexual organism studied; cf., Powell, 1975) is due to crossings between differentiated populations, though it is not clear whether historically remote phenomena are valid explanations for the presently high heterozygosity. We do appreciate the potential twofold reproductive cap ...
... practically any other sexual organism studied; cf., Powell, 1975) is due to crossings between differentiated populations, though it is not clear whether historically remote phenomena are valid explanations for the presently high heterozygosity. We do appreciate the potential twofold reproductive cap ...
Evolutionary Approaches to Creativity
... 2000). However given the above-mentioned significant increase in cranial capacity, it seems parsimonious to posit that this dramatic encephalization allowed a more sophisticated mode of cognitive functioning, and is thus at least partly responsible for the appearance of cultural artifacts (and the b ...
... 2000). However given the above-mentioned significant increase in cranial capacity, it seems parsimonious to posit that this dramatic encephalization allowed a more sophisticated mode of cognitive functioning, and is thus at least partly responsible for the appearance of cultural artifacts (and the b ...
Biological Aging: Active and Passive Mechanisms Compared
... of these mechanisms as biological suicide, or self-destruction mechanisms. These mechanisms can be expected to vary between species just as evolved mechanisms that provide for vision, digestion, or mobility vary between species. The generic deteriorative processes may be harnessed in implementing a ...
... of these mechanisms as biological suicide, or self-destruction mechanisms. These mechanisms can be expected to vary between species just as evolved mechanisms that provide for vision, digestion, or mobility vary between species. The generic deteriorative processes may be harnessed in implementing a ...
Network Centric Warfare as Complex Optimization: An - UNI-NKE
... with lines results in landscape-like surface, which is very rich in peaks or local optima. According to them the number of such local optima increases almost exponentially to N resulting in an uncorrelated landscape of which the expected lengths of adaptive walks are generally very short. Each succe ...
... with lines results in landscape-like surface, which is very rich in peaks or local optima. According to them the number of such local optima increases almost exponentially to N resulting in an uncorrelated landscape of which the expected lengths of adaptive walks are generally very short. Each succe ...
Fulltext PDF - Indian Academy of Sciences
... themselves” and to refrain from any theorizing. Editors of scientific journals still receive a large number of manuscripts that present data without any discussion or interpretation beyond a comparison with previous studies on the subject. This attitude among biologists seems to persist even though ...
... themselves” and to refrain from any theorizing. Editors of scientific journals still receive a large number of manuscripts that present data without any discussion or interpretation beyond a comparison with previous studies on the subject. This attitude among biologists seems to persist even though ...
Year 12 ATAR Human Biology Course Outline 2017
... covered by yourself in your own time. 4. If you miss a test for any reason, you will be expected to sit that test on the day that you return to school. Please make contact with your teacher to ensure that appropriate arrangements are made for sitting the test as soon as possible after your return. ...
... covered by yourself in your own time. 4. If you miss a test for any reason, you will be expected to sit that test on the day that you return to school. Please make contact with your teacher to ensure that appropriate arrangements are made for sitting the test as soon as possible after your return. ...
Lewontin on definition of fitness
... (3) This failure is a consequence of the fact that in different biological situations different algorithms must be used to connect temporal changes in type frequencies with quantitative information about reproduction and that in an important fraction of cases even complete information on reproductiv ...
... (3) This failure is a consequence of the fact that in different biological situations different algorithms must be used to connect temporal changes in type frequencies with quantitative information about reproduction and that in an important fraction of cases even complete information on reproductiv ...
Convergence, Adaptation, and Constraint The Harvard community
... adaptation to similar selective conditions. Thus, convergence per se is not indicative of adaptation. Rather, it is the occurrence of convergent evolution in taxa that experience similar selective environments that has been taken as evidence of the operation of natural selection. But is the argument ...
... adaptation to similar selective conditions. Thus, convergence per se is not indicative of adaptation. Rather, it is the occurrence of convergent evolution in taxa that experience similar selective environments that has been taken as evidence of the operation of natural selection. But is the argument ...
Evolutionary Approaches to Creativity
... been capable of representing an idea once the object was no longer being present, such representations were more likely to be visual rather than verbal (Feist, 2006). Also, thought during this time period was most likely only first-order; the capacity for thinking about thinking (i.e., metacognition ...
... been capable of representing an idea once the object was no longer being present, such representations were more likely to be visual rather than verbal (Feist, 2006). Also, thought during this time period was most likely only first-order; the capacity for thinking about thinking (i.e., metacognition ...
- roar@UEL - University of East London
... a kind of change, change that can be caused by natural selection, drift etc. More precisely, a distinction can be drawn between a general theory of evolution and a special theory [23]. The general theory captures the basic Darwinian dynamics of variation, inheritance, competition and selection. This ...
... a kind of change, change that can be caused by natural selection, drift etc. More precisely, a distinction can be drawn between a general theory of evolution and a special theory [23]. The general theory captures the basic Darwinian dynamics of variation, inheritance, competition and selection. This ...
How Can Evolutionary Psychology Successfully Explain Personality
... the same degree. Although all heritable variation ultimately originates from mutations, the different fitness optima of heritable variants over time and space can maintain the heritable variation. Although there are several forms of balancing selection, the two most relevant forms for personality ar ...
... the same degree. Although all heritable variation ultimately originates from mutations, the different fitness optima of heritable variants over time and space can maintain the heritable variation. Although there are several forms of balancing selection, the two most relevant forms for personality ar ...
Environmental Grain, Organism Fitness, and Type
... in, the following questions are important. Does every subset of conditions that might coexist within a whole environment count as determining fitness relative to it? If not, why not? Since diverse evolutionary models relativize fitnesses to subenvironments, it would be useful to understand when such m ...
... in, the following questions are important. Does every subset of conditions that might coexist within a whole environment count as determining fitness relative to it? If not, why not? Since diverse evolutionary models relativize fitnesses to subenvironments, it would be useful to understand when such m ...
Unit 2: Change and Diversity of Life
... Fitness is the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce. Adaptation is any inherited characteristic that increases an organism’s chance of survival. ...
... Fitness is the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce. Adaptation is any inherited characteristic that increases an organism’s chance of survival. ...
Evolution and Speciation
... been suggested and debated well before Darwin. The view that species were static and unchanging was grounded in the writings of Plato, yet there were also ancient Greeks that expressed evolutionary ideas. In the eighteenth century, ideas about the evolution of animals were reintroduced by the natura ...
... been suggested and debated well before Darwin. The view that species were static and unchanging was grounded in the writings of Plato, yet there were also ancient Greeks that expressed evolutionary ideas. In the eighteenth century, ideas about the evolution of animals were reintroduced by the natura ...
The naturalist view of Universal Darwinism - UvA-DARE
... The controversies between Naturalists and Ultra-Darwinians originate in a debate about the nature of evolutionary change. Ever since Darwin, the orthodox view of evolution has been of a smooth and gradual process driven by the continuous accumulation of small changes at the level of the organism. Th ...
... The controversies between Naturalists and Ultra-Darwinians originate in a debate about the nature of evolutionary change. Ever since Darwin, the orthodox view of evolution has been of a smooth and gradual process driven by the continuous accumulation of small changes at the level of the organism. Th ...
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... Natural selection is not a random process. It has the opposite effect of chance because it selects the best adapted organisms which then contribute disproportionately to the gene pool of the next generation Evolution is not directional / has no predetermined purpose. Humans exist because natural ...
... Natural selection is not a random process. It has the opposite effect of chance because it selects the best adapted organisms which then contribute disproportionately to the gene pool of the next generation Evolution is not directional / has no predetermined purpose. Humans exist because natural ...
On reciprocal causation in the evolutionary process
... of evolution’’ that is a ‘‘co-contributor, with natural selection, to the evolutionary process itself’’ (p. 370). This argument is based on the somewhat disingenuous contention that evolutionary biologists view natural selection as an abiotic entity that is not influenced or changed by living organi ...
... of evolution’’ that is a ‘‘co-contributor, with natural selection, to the evolutionary process itself’’ (p. 370). This argument is based on the somewhat disingenuous contention that evolutionary biologists view natural selection as an abiotic entity that is not influenced or changed by living organi ...
Building Beasts - Saunders Middle School
... Environment 2: The polar ice caps have melted causing the sea levels to rise. The desert is now flooded with several inches of saltwater from nearby seas and saltwater organisms such as small clams and sea cucumbers now inhabit the sand. Environment 3: Pollution from a nearby Cruise Ship collision h ...
... Environment 2: The polar ice caps have melted causing the sea levels to rise. The desert is now flooded with several inches of saltwater from nearby seas and saltwater organisms such as small clams and sea cucumbers now inhabit the sand. Environment 3: Pollution from a nearby Cruise Ship collision h ...