Futures Traded - Cardiff University
... transient appearance of things to their invariant essence. Many of neo-Platonism’s specific assumptions about nature and humanity also underlie natural philosophy’s (early modern science) search for the eternal laws of nature. Nonetheless, there remains a crucial discontinuity between these traditio ...
... transient appearance of things to their invariant essence. Many of neo-Platonism’s specific assumptions about nature and humanity also underlie natural philosophy’s (early modern science) search for the eternal laws of nature. Nonetheless, there remains a crucial discontinuity between these traditio ...
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... transient appearance of things to their invariant essence. Many of neo-Platonism’s specific assumptions about nature and humanity also underlie natural philosophy’s (early modern science) search for the eternal laws of nature. Nonetheless, there remains a crucial discontinuity between these traditio ...
... transient appearance of things to their invariant essence. Many of neo-Platonism’s specific assumptions about nature and humanity also underlie natural philosophy’s (early modern science) search for the eternal laws of nature. Nonetheless, there remains a crucial discontinuity between these traditio ...
Indirect selection and individual selection in sociobiology: My
... “because a large, successful group benefits all its members.” In the 1960s a debate emerged about the importance of group selection in evolution. Wynne-Edwards (1962) suggested that animals often reduced their reproduction according to the interest of the population, while Lack (1966) asserted that ...
... “because a large, successful group benefits all its members.” In the 1960s a debate emerged about the importance of group selection in evolution. Wynne-Edwards (1962) suggested that animals often reduced their reproduction according to the interest of the population, while Lack (1966) asserted that ...
1 Structuration Theory and Self-Organization Christian Fuchs1
... argues that causes and effects can be mapped linearly: each cause has one and only one effect, similar causes have similar effects, different causes have different effects; and it assumes that small changes of causes necessarily have small effects and large changes of causes necessarily have large e ...
... argues that causes and effects can be mapped linearly: each cause has one and only one effect, similar causes have similar effects, different causes have different effects; and it assumes that small changes of causes necessarily have small effects and large changes of causes necessarily have large e ...
Behavioural leads in evolution: evidence from the
... testing hypotheses about behavioural innovation is the fossil record. Traditionally, the behaviour of fossil species has been deduced from their morphology, precluding the observation of a behavioural lead preceding morphological evolution. This circularity can be broken by examining behavioural pro ...
... testing hypotheses about behavioural innovation is the fossil record. Traditionally, the behaviour of fossil species has been deduced from their morphology, precluding the observation of a behavioural lead preceding morphological evolution. This circularity can be broken by examining behavioural pro ...
Forthcoming in Bhaskar, R., Esbjörn
... Ken Wilber for his part has little sympathy for Marxism or socialism.4 His heart is elsewhere and so are his intellectual investments. He’s not so much interested in social action and political change as in silent meditation, personal transformation and self-development. He’s not concerned with deep ...
... Ken Wilber for his part has little sympathy for Marxism or socialism.4 His heart is elsewhere and so are his intellectual investments. He’s not so much interested in social action and political change as in silent meditation, personal transformation and self-development. He’s not concerned with deep ...
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... Parsons, these functional prerequisits are “adaptation, goal gratification, integration, and latent pattern maintenance” (Almond 1965:185; Parsons 1963). In order to perform these functions, social systems have to differentiate subsystems, each of which specializes o ...
... Parsons, these functional prerequisits are “adaptation, goal gratification, integration, and latent pattern maintenance” (Almond 1965:185; Parsons 1963). In order to perform these functions, social systems have to differentiate subsystems, each of which specializes o ...
Darwinian foundations for evolutionary economics Stoelhorst, JW
... best in the system’s local environment are retained. In essence, the generalized version of Darwinism offers a substrate neutral algorithm to explain adaptive fit, variety from common origins, and the accumulation of adaptive complexity (Dennett 1995). Darwinism is algorithmic because the combinatio ...
... best in the system’s local environment are retained. In essence, the generalized version of Darwinism offers a substrate neutral algorithm to explain adaptive fit, variety from common origins, and the accumulation of adaptive complexity (Dennett 1995). Darwinism is algorithmic because the combinatio ...
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... Developmental changes can be rather "easy" these are tweaks to a system. Allometric differences, alone, can occur solely in response to selection for different body sizes. This can produce a very regular and progressive trend in morphology over time, and within a group of closely related organisms. ...
... Developmental changes can be rather "easy" these are tweaks to a system. Allometric differences, alone, can occur solely in response to selection for different body sizes. This can produce a very regular and progressive trend in morphology over time, and within a group of closely related organisms. ...
The Relation of Spencer`s Evolutionary Theory to Darwin`s
... of society], and by the death of all men who fail to contend with them successfully, there is ensured a constant progress towards a higher degree of skill, intelligence, and self8Herbert ...
... of society], and by the death of all men who fail to contend with them successfully, there is ensured a constant progress towards a higher degree of skill, intelligence, and self8Herbert ...
16-3 - Brookings School District
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... every single morphological and behavioral trait of every single organism. In fact, the terms “adaptation” and “adaptationism” continue to be mainly associated with the Neo-Darwinian view of evolution, which focused in great part on the fit between adult form and function. As recognized by Olson (201 ...
... every single morphological and behavioral trait of every single organism. In fact, the terms “adaptation” and “adaptationism” continue to be mainly associated with the Neo-Darwinian view of evolution, which focused in great part on the fit between adult form and function. As recognized by Olson (201 ...
Evolution - York University
... of the problems that troubled him on the Voyage. He began to write these down in a series of notebooks in which he made observations. He continued this for 20 years. • During those years, he made famous studies of barnacles – writing what is today still the definitive text on barnacles. He wrote abo ...
... of the problems that troubled him on the Voyage. He began to write these down in a series of notebooks in which he made observations. He continued this for 20 years. • During those years, he made famous studies of barnacles – writing what is today still the definitive text on barnacles. He wrote abo ...
15-3 - Brookings School District
... Image from: BIOLOGY AP EDITION by Campbell and Reece; Prentice Hall Publishing©2005 ...
... Image from: BIOLOGY AP EDITION by Campbell and Reece; Prentice Hall Publishing©2005 ...
Evolutionary distributions and competition by way of reaction
... emerge as intrinsic properties of such models. Because of their similarity to patterns that are observed in nature, links are made between patterns from models and in nature. All such models do not answer the quintessential question: Why do we observe such patterns in the first place? Answers to suc ...
... emerge as intrinsic properties of such models. Because of their similarity to patterns that are observed in nature, links are made between patterns from models and in nature. All such models do not answer the quintessential question: Why do we observe such patterns in the first place? Answers to suc ...
Structuration Theory and Self-Organization
... (the system’s structure). According to this assumption, Kauffman (1993) defines complexity as the “number of conflicting constraints” in a system, Heylighen (1996) says that complexity can be characterized by a lack of symmetry (symmetry breaking), which means that “no part or aspect of a complex en ...
... (the system’s structure). According to this assumption, Kauffman (1993) defines complexity as the “number of conflicting constraints” in a system, Heylighen (1996) says that complexity can be characterized by a lack of symmetry (symmetry breaking), which means that “no part or aspect of a complex en ...
TEACHING EVOLUTION WITH PALENTOLOGICAL DATA: A WEB RESOURCE FOR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS
... Over the past thirty years, the presence of naïve notions, or alternate conceptions in a student population, have been consistently identified as playing a key role in the inability for students to understanding evolutionary theory (Brumby, 1979; Greene, 1990; Settlage, 1994; Ferrari and Chi, 1998). ...
... Over the past thirty years, the presence of naïve notions, or alternate conceptions in a student population, have been consistently identified as playing a key role in the inability for students to understanding evolutionary theory (Brumby, 1979; Greene, 1990; Settlage, 1994; Ferrari and Chi, 1998). ...
Using new tools to solve an old problem: the evolution of
... endothermy could have occurred. More recently, molecular biologists have developed powerful tools to infer past adaptive processes, and gene expression mechanisms that describe the organization of genomes into phenotypes. Here, we argue that the evolution of endothermy could now be elucidated based ...
... endothermy could have occurred. More recently, molecular biologists have developed powerful tools to infer past adaptive processes, and gene expression mechanisms that describe the organization of genomes into phenotypes. Here, we argue that the evolution of endothermy could now be elucidated based ...
MUTATION THEORY - Textbook History
... and reverse a slide in public affection for directed evolution (aka eugenics), an idea that had slowly, but progressively through the 1950s, become indefensible as the lessons of Nazism sunk in. Muller was unreconstructed. He disliked the ecological direction biology had taken (see related article), ...
... and reverse a slide in public affection for directed evolution (aka eugenics), an idea that had slowly, but progressively through the 1950s, become indefensible as the lessons of Nazism sunk in. Muller was unreconstructed. He disliked the ecological direction biology had taken (see related article), ...
The impact of rapid evolution on population dynamics in the
... The experiment was conducted in a wash (20 m by 12 m), cleared of vegetation, at the Reserve. We deployed a wire fence try to exclude vertebrate herbivores. To minimise variation in host plants, they were grown from the seeds of a single H. incana collected in 2008 at the Reserve. Two-week old seedl ...
... The experiment was conducted in a wash (20 m by 12 m), cleared of vegetation, at the Reserve. We deployed a wire fence try to exclude vertebrate herbivores. To minimise variation in host plants, they were grown from the seeds of a single H. incana collected in 2008 at the Reserve. Two-week old seedl ...
REMARKS ON LAMARCKIAN CONCEPT OF ANIMAL EVOLUTION
... on the origin of species (or descent of species) brought intellectual debate on the idea of evolution. Darwinism (or the theory of natural selection) had to fight with the supporters of biblical ideas of the origin of living beings in one hand and on the other hand on the methods of origin of living ...
... on the origin of species (or descent of species) brought intellectual debate on the idea of evolution. Darwinism (or the theory of natural selection) had to fight with the supporters of biblical ideas of the origin of living beings in one hand and on the other hand on the methods of origin of living ...
The impact of rapid evolution on population dynamics in the wild
... The experiment was conducted in a wash (20 m by 12 m), cleared of vegetation, at the Reserve. We deployed a wire fence try to exclude vertebrate herbivores. To minimise variation in host plants, they were grown from the seeds of a single H. incana collected in 2008 at the Reserve. Two-week old seedl ...
... The experiment was conducted in a wash (20 m by 12 m), cleared of vegetation, at the Reserve. We deployed a wire fence try to exclude vertebrate herbivores. To minimise variation in host plants, they were grown from the seeds of a single H. incana collected in 2008 at the Reserve. Two-week old seedl ...
article - Jan Baars, Ph.D.
... This article focuses on the problem of social constitution which is seen as the principal theoretical challenge that is implicit in the different approaches to "critical gerontology". The acknowledgement of a social constitution of both gerontology and aging contrasts with the conventional understan ...
... This article focuses on the problem of social constitution which is seen as the principal theoretical challenge that is implicit in the different approaches to "critical gerontology". The acknowledgement of a social constitution of both gerontology and aging contrasts with the conventional understan ...
Conceptual Barriers to Progress Within Evolutionary Biology
... perspective also recognizes two general forms of inheritance in evolution, genetic and ecological inheritance. There are two legacies that organisms inherit from their ancestors, genes and modified environments, incorporating modified selection pressures. Ecological inheritance is not a high-fidelit ...
... perspective also recognizes two general forms of inheritance in evolution, genetic and ecological inheritance. There are two legacies that organisms inherit from their ancestors, genes and modified environments, incorporating modified selection pressures. Ecological inheritance is not a high-fidelit ...
Sociocultural evolution
Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or cultural evolution are theories of cultural and social evolution that describe how cultures and societies change over time. Whereas sociocultural development traces processes that tend to increase the complexity of a society or culture, sociocultural evolution also considers process that can lead to decreases in complexity (degeneration) or that can produce variation or proliferation without any seemingly significant changes in complexity (cladogenesis). Sociocultural evolution is ""the process by which structural reorganization is affected through time, eventually producing a form or structure which is qualitatively different from the ancestral form"".(Note, this article focusses on that use of the term 'socio-cultural evolution' to refer to work that is not in line with contemporary understandings of the word 'evolution'. There is a separate body of academic work which uses the term 'cultural evolution' using a more consensus Darwinian understanding of the term 'evolution'. For a description of this work, based in the foundational work of DT Campbell in the 1960s and followed up by Boyd, Richerson, Cvalli-Sforza, and Feldman in the 1980s, go to Cultural evolution or Dual inheritance theory.)Most 19th-century and some 20th-century approaches to socioculture aimed to provide models for the evolution of humankind as a whole, arguing that different societies have reached different stages of social development. The most comprehensive attempt to develop a general theory of social evolution centering on the development of socio-cultural systems, the work of Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), operated on a scale which included a theory of world history. Another attempt, on a less systematic scale, originated with the world-systems approach.More recent approaches focus on changes specific to individual societies and reject the idea that cultures differ primarily according to how far each one is on the linear scale of social progress. Most modern archaeologists and cultural anthropologists work within the frameworks of neoevolutionism, sociobiology and modernization theory.Many different societies have existed in the course of human history, with estimates as high as over one million separate societies; however, as of 2013, only about two hundred or so different societies survive.