Key Questions on the Role of Phenotypic
... Received February 28, 2015; First decision March 26, 2015; Accepted July 16, 2015. ...
... Received February 28, 2015; First decision March 26, 2015; Accepted July 16, 2015. ...
Genetic Programming: An Introduction and Tutorial
... introduce important unintended biases. Because neither the Grow or Full method provide a very wide array of sizes or shapes on their own, Koza proposed a combination called ramped half-andhalf [188]. Here half the initial population is constructed using Full and half is constructed using Grow. This ...
... introduce important unintended biases. Because neither the Grow or Full method provide a very wide array of sizes or shapes on their own, Koza proposed a combination called ramped half-andhalf [188]. Here half the initial population is constructed using Full and half is constructed using Grow. This ...
Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is
... Biological evolution is the theory that all living things are modified descendants of a common ancestor that lived in the distant past. It claims that you and I are descendants of ape-like ancestors, and that they in turn came from still more primitive animals. This is the primary meaning of «evo ...
... Biological evolution is the theory that all living things are modified descendants of a common ancestor that lived in the distant past. It claims that you and I are descendants of ape-like ancestors, and that they in turn came from still more primitive animals. This is the primary meaning of «evo ...
Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human
... Leech (2013) for reviews of the various mechanisms proposed to date. Heretofore, the debate about the importance of CGS relative to competing explanations for human cooperation has not been fully engaged. Some debates have focused on narrow issues such as the interpretation of experimental results ( ...
... Leech (2013) for reviews of the various mechanisms proposed to date. Heretofore, the debate about the importance of CGS relative to competing explanations for human cooperation has not been fully engaged. Some debates have focused on narrow issues such as the interpretation of experimental results ( ...
Frozen cultural plasticity
... Leech (2013) for reviews of the various mechanisms proposed to date. Heretofore, the debate about the importance of CGS relative to competing explanations for human cooperation has not been fully engaged. Some debates have focused on narrow issues such as the interpretation of experimental results ( ...
... Leech (2013) for reviews of the various mechanisms proposed to date. Heretofore, the debate about the importance of CGS relative to competing explanations for human cooperation has not been fully engaged. Some debates have focused on narrow issues such as the interpretation of experimental results ( ...
Turchin P, Currie, TC. 2016. Cultural Group Selection
... Leech (2013) for reviews of the various mechanisms proposed to date. Heretofore, the debate about the importance of CGS relative to competing explanations for human cooperation has not been fully engaged. Some debates have focused on narrow issues such as the interpretation of experimental results ( ...
... Leech (2013) for reviews of the various mechanisms proposed to date. Heretofore, the debate about the importance of CGS relative to competing explanations for human cooperation has not been fully engaged. Some debates have focused on narrow issues such as the interpretation of experimental results ( ...
Is It Evolution Yet?
... (Dunnell 1989:45). In this view, the forces or processes that give rise to phenotypic variation are unimportant to the analysis of evolutionary change. All that matters is that variation have some heritable component and that this variation have differential fitness effects such that natural selecti ...
... (Dunnell 1989:45). In this view, the forces or processes that give rise to phenotypic variation are unimportant to the analysis of evolutionary change. All that matters is that variation have some heritable component and that this variation have differential fitness effects such that natural selecti ...
Boone James L. Is It Evolution Yet
... (Dunnell 1989:45). In this view, the forces or processes that give rise to phenotypic variation are unimportant to the analysis of evolutionary change. All that matters is that variation have some heritable component and that this variation have differential fitness effects such that natural selecti ...
... (Dunnell 1989:45). In this view, the forces or processes that give rise to phenotypic variation are unimportant to the analysis of evolutionary change. All that matters is that variation have some heritable component and that this variation have differential fitness effects such that natural selecti ...
Is It Evolution Yet? A Critique of Evolutionary Archaeology
... (Dunnell 1989:45). In this view, the forces or processes that give rise to phenotypic variation are unimportant to the analysis of evolutionary change. All that matters is that variation have some heritable component and that this variation have differential fitness effects such that natural selecti ...
... (Dunnell 1989:45). In this view, the forces or processes that give rise to phenotypic variation are unimportant to the analysis of evolutionary change. All that matters is that variation have some heritable component and that this variation have differential fitness effects such that natural selecti ...
the science of evolution the myth of creationism
... competing theory. (“Both sides ought to be properly taught...so people can understand what the debate is about.”) On this Skybreak has commented: “From a scientific perspective this position is as ridiculous as insisting that students be taught not only that the earth is round but also the ‘competin ...
... competing theory. (“Both sides ought to be properly taught...so people can understand what the debate is about.”) On this Skybreak has commented: “From a scientific perspective this position is as ridiculous as insisting that students be taught not only that the earth is round but also the ‘competin ...
Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social
... of shifting humankind from our privileged position in the land of the non-animals to the natural world, the work of applying to ourselves the Darwinian framework that has been so astoundingly successful when applied to every other species, is well under way. This volume is an invitation to social-cu ...
... of shifting humankind from our privileged position in the land of the non-animals to the natural world, the work of applying to ourselves the Darwinian framework that has been so astoundingly successful when applied to every other species, is well under way. This volume is an invitation to social-cu ...
THE DARWINIAN SIDE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The Role
... The second reason why social scientists are reluctant to refer to evolutionary theory in their researches is the abuse of the concept of "fitness" and related evolutionary ideas. Social Darwinists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have used a Darwinian wordage to support their own ...
... The second reason why social scientists are reluctant to refer to evolutionary theory in their researches is the abuse of the concept of "fitness" and related evolutionary ideas. Social Darwinists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have used a Darwinian wordage to support their own ...
Discovery and Confirmation in Evolutionary
... vision, thus improving depth perception and, as a result, movement among the smaller parts of the branches (Allman 2000).4 Adaptive problems are always relative to specific organisms. To take a trivial example, improving depth perception is an adaptive problem only for animals with eyes. Information ...
... vision, thus improving depth perception and, as a result, movement among the smaller parts of the branches (Allman 2000).4 Adaptive problems are always relative to specific organisms. To take a trivial example, improving depth perception is an adaptive problem only for animals with eyes. Information ...
LIFE AFTER EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY David
... strategy is more tractable from an evolutionary standpoint than the ‘strategyÕ of checking for Rolexes. Buller discusses some of the odour-preference work when he deals with Gangestad and ThornhillÕs (1997) bilateral symmetry approach. These authors proposed that women chose more bilaterally symmetr ...
... strategy is more tractable from an evolutionary standpoint than the ‘strategyÕ of checking for Rolexes. Buller discusses some of the odour-preference work when he deals with Gangestad and ThornhillÕs (1997) bilateral symmetry approach. These authors proposed that women chose more bilaterally symmetr ...
The cultural evolution of emergent group-level traits
... influences fitness (Jablonka & Lamb 2005) – yet we do not usually think of the cells in the body as undergoing individual evolution (except perhaps in the case of cancer cells). Reproductive success for a multicellular organism translates not to the propagation of the traits of any one cell, but rat ...
... influences fitness (Jablonka & Lamb 2005) – yet we do not usually think of the cells in the body as undergoing individual evolution (except perhaps in the case of cancer cells). Reproductive success for a multicellular organism translates not to the propagation of the traits of any one cell, but rat ...
D.3.4-3.10 Human Evolution PowerPoint
... non opposable big toe, a broad pelvis , a more vertical posture and a skull on top of vertebrae; A. afarensis also had short legs indicating bipedality; A. afarensis curved finger bones; which indicated it was still arboreal (living in trees); A. afarensis had conical thorax; indicating vegetarian d ...
... non opposable big toe, a broad pelvis , a more vertical posture and a skull on top of vertebrae; A. afarensis also had short legs indicating bipedality; A. afarensis curved finger bones; which indicated it was still arboreal (living in trees); A. afarensis had conical thorax; indicating vegetarian d ...
Analogical Reasoning - Scholarship@Western
... does not hold (as it is currently defmed) for chimpanzees (Povinelli, 2000). Chimpanzees do not perceive the world as we do; their cognitive abilities and processes, although complex, are often very different from our own (Povinelli and Giambrone, 2000). I will quickly illustrate one the experiments ...
... does not hold (as it is currently defmed) for chimpanzees (Povinelli, 2000). Chimpanzees do not perceive the world as we do; their cognitive abilities and processes, although complex, are often very different from our own (Povinelli and Giambrone, 2000). I will quickly illustrate one the experiments ...
The Darwinian cage: Evolutionary psychology as moral science
... social science, which they regard as dominated by an outdated ‘social constructionist’ paradigm which ignores the facts of our biology in favour of a social learning model of the mind. For evolutionary psychology, society is synonymous with culture, which is itself merely ‘the manufactured product o ...
... social science, which they regard as dominated by an outdated ‘social constructionist’ paradigm which ignores the facts of our biology in favour of a social learning model of the mind. For evolutionary psychology, society is synonymous with culture, which is itself merely ‘the manufactured product o ...
The Psychological Foundations of Culture
... (quantitative measurement, controlled observation, mathematical models, experimentation, etc.), they have tended to neglect or even reject the central principle that valid scientific knowledge-whether from the same or different fields-should be mutually consistent (see Cosmides, Tooby, & Barkow, thi ...
... (quantitative measurement, controlled observation, mathematical models, experimentation, etc.), they have tended to neglect or even reject the central principle that valid scientific knowledge-whether from the same or different fields-should be mutually consistent (see Cosmides, Tooby, & Barkow, thi ...
full text
... The so-called evolutionary approach is getting more and more popular in various branches of philosophy. Evolutionary explanations are often used not only in the philosophy of mind (mental content, consciousness), ethics (altruism, responsibility) and epistemology (evolutionary epistemology), but als ...
... The so-called evolutionary approach is getting more and more popular in various branches of philosophy. Evolutionary explanations are often used not only in the philosophy of mind (mental content, consciousness), ethics (altruism, responsibility) and epistemology (evolutionary epistemology), but als ...
Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to
... controversy has been over the role of cultural group selection and geneculture coevolution in early human populations during Pleistocene. We argue that cultural group selection and related cultural evolutionary processes had an important role in shaping the innate components of our social psychology ...
... controversy has been over the role of cultural group selection and geneculture coevolution in early human populations during Pleistocene. We argue that cultural group selection and related cultural evolutionary processes had an important role in shaping the innate components of our social psychology ...
The Man Who Bottled Evolution
... imagine feasible experiments that would really test the scientific ideas that most excited me,” he wrote in an August blog. For his postdoctoral training in 1982, he switched gears and joined the lab of Bruce Levin, one of the few researchers doing experimental evolution in microbes. They studied th ...
... imagine feasible experiments that would really test the scientific ideas that most excited me,” he wrote in an August blog. For his postdoctoral training in 1982, he switched gears and joined the lab of Bruce Levin, one of the few researchers doing experimental evolution in microbes. They studied th ...
(Part 2)》(Jonathan Sarfati)
... how it works, and to dispel common misunderstandings. The project seeks to illuminate why evolution is relevant, to improve its teaching, and to encourage a national dialogue on the issues currently surrounding this science.2 Such in-your-face propaganda demands an answer from Christians who believe ...
... how it works, and to dispel common misunderstandings. The project seeks to illuminate why evolution is relevant, to improve its teaching, and to encourage a national dialogue on the issues currently surrounding this science.2 Such in-your-face propaganda demands an answer from Christians who believe ...
Human Nature, Political Behavior, and Making Sense of Our Social
... psychology - that breaks down existing stereotypes about the evolutionary sciences. I specifically hope to present a version of evolutionary psychology that deadens the ever-present critique that evolutionary theory does not account for the influence and importance of culture. I argue that we are so ...
... psychology - that breaks down existing stereotypes about the evolutionary sciences. I specifically hope to present a version of evolutionary psychology that deadens the ever-present critique that evolutionary theory does not account for the influence and importance of culture. I argue that we are so ...
Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology
... respect to the Standard Social Science Model—looked for phylogenetic continuities in the laws of learning that would apply across species. As valuable as each of these approaches turned out to be, conceptual handicaps internal to each program limited their scope of application and their capacity to ...
... respect to the Standard Social Science Model—looked for phylogenetic continuities in the laws of learning that would apply across species. As valuable as each of these approaches turned out to be, conceptual handicaps internal to each program limited their scope of application and their capacity to ...
Before the Dawn (book)
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors is a non-fiction book by Nicholas Wade, a science reporter for The New York Times. It was published in 2006 by the Penguin Group. By drawing upon research on the human genome, the book attempts to piece together what Wade calls ""two vanished periods"": the five million years of human evolution from the development of bipedalism leading up to behavioural modernity around 50,000 years ago, and the 45,000 subsequent years of prehistory.Wade asserts that there is a clear continuity from the earlier apes of five million years ago to the anatomically modern humans who diverged from them, citing the genetic and social similarities between humans and chimpanzees. He attributes the divergence of the two species from a common ancestor to a change in their ecological niche; the ancestors of chimpanzees remained in the forests of equatorial Africa, whereas the ancestors of humans moved to open woodland and were exposed to different evolutionary pressures. Although Wade posits that much of human evolution can be attributed to the physical environment, he also believes that one of the major forces shaping evolution has been the nature of human society itself.After humans migrated out of their ancestral environment of eastern Africa, they were exposed to new climates and challenges. Thus, Wade argues, human evolution did not end with behavioural modernity, but continued to be shaped by the different environments and lifestyles of each continent. While many adaptations happened in parallel across human populations, Wade believes that genetic isolation – either because of geography or hostile tribalism – also facilitated a degree of independent evolution, leading to genetic and cultural differentiation from the ancestral population and giving rise to different human races and languages.The book received generally positive reviews, but some criticised the use of the term ""race"" and the implications of differences between them. In 2007, it won the Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers.