Introduction to Evolutionary Computing
... Combinations of traits that are better adapted tend to increase representation in population Individuals are “units of selection” Variations occur through random changes yielding constant source of diversity, coupled with selection means that: Population is the “unit of evolution” Note the absence o ...
... Combinations of traits that are better adapted tend to increase representation in population Individuals are “units of selection” Variations occur through random changes yielding constant source of diversity, coupled with selection means that: Population is the “unit of evolution” Note the absence o ...
the study of animal behavior
... is responsible for the production of behavioral output. Topics include the stimuli or triggers of behavior whether they be internal or external, the way in which behavioral output is guided, factors that stop behavior, and the like. These are questions concerning the generation of behavior. Sometime ...
... is responsible for the production of behavioral output. Topics include the stimuli or triggers of behavior whether they be internal or external, the way in which behavioral output is guided, factors that stop behavior, and the like. These are questions concerning the generation of behavior. Sometime ...
psychology
... = the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. • Today’s science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture. ...
... = the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. • Today’s science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture. ...
Pre-adaptation, exaptation and technology speciation: a comment
... foresightful adaptation is involved in pre-adaptation. But this notion contradicts one of the basic principles of evolutionary theory, that the process of natural selection involves no foresight. It also contradicts the intended meaning advocates want to give to pre-adaptation, as I understand it. A ...
... foresightful adaptation is involved in pre-adaptation. But this notion contradicts one of the basic principles of evolutionary theory, that the process of natural selection involves no foresight. It also contradicts the intended meaning advocates want to give to pre-adaptation, as I understand it. A ...
Slide 1
... indoctrinate you in the matters of faith. I will try to make sure that you understand and remember scientific concepts, data, and reasoning. If you succed in this, but still believe that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago (and, perhaps, that Prof. Kondrashov, as an "evolutionist", will end up in ...
... indoctrinate you in the matters of faith. I will try to make sure that you understand and remember scientific concepts, data, and reasoning. If you succed in this, but still believe that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago (and, perhaps, that Prof. Kondrashov, as an "evolutionist", will end up in ...
Full citation: Hamblin, Jacob D. (ed.), Roundtable Review of
... After all, didn’t most historians decide long ago that they were “humanities” people rather than “science” people? Who can deny that the topics we choose reflect our values, interests, experiences, and edu ...
... After all, didn’t most historians decide long ago that they were “humanities” people rather than “science” people? Who can deny that the topics we choose reflect our values, interests, experiences, and edu ...
More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited
... In this article, Mayr distinguished ‘proximate’ from ‘ultimate’ causes. Proximate causes are immediate, mechanical influences on a trait—they explain how internal (e.g. hormonal) and external (e.g. temperature, day length) factors combine to elicit or generate the character. Conversely, ultimate cau ...
... In this article, Mayr distinguished ‘proximate’ from ‘ultimate’ causes. Proximate causes are immediate, mechanical influences on a trait—they explain how internal (e.g. hormonal) and external (e.g. temperature, day length) factors combine to elicit or generate the character. Conversely, ultimate cau ...
Taking Evolution Seriously: Historical Institutionalism and
... or invented. In the introduction to a new edition of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species, one of his leading contemporary disciples, Richard Dawkins, writes: Suppose we measure the power of a scientific theory as a ratio: how much it explains divided by how much it needs to assume in order to do ...
... or invented. In the introduction to a new edition of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species, one of his leading contemporary disciples, Richard Dawkins, writes: Suppose we measure the power of a scientific theory as a ratio: how much it explains divided by how much it needs to assume in order to do ...
Introduction
... Combinations of traits that are better adapted tend to increase representation in population Individuals are “units of selection” Variations occur through random changes yielding constant source of diversity, coupled with selection means that: Population is the “unit of evolution” Note the absence o ...
... Combinations of traits that are better adapted tend to increase representation in population Individuals are “units of selection” Variations occur through random changes yielding constant source of diversity, coupled with selection means that: Population is the “unit of evolution” Note the absence o ...
Evolution and the Bounds of Human
... would be predicted to emerge under the pressures of competitive constraints. Behaviors that increase sexual opportunities by enhancing physical survival and resource accumulation can be identified from knowledge of the evolutionary environment, but behaviors that increase fitness through their attra ...
... would be predicted to emerge under the pressures of competitive constraints. Behaviors that increase sexual opportunities by enhancing physical survival and resource accumulation can be identified from knowledge of the evolutionary environment, but behaviors that increase fitness through their attra ...
Summer Assignment - Chesapeake High School
... b. Psychiatry c. Psychoanalysis d. Psychology e. sociology 3. A historical school of psychology that sought to understand how the brain works by studying perception and perceptual learning; believed that percepts consist of meaningful wholes (in German, Gestalts). a. Psychology b. Gestalt psychology ...
... b. Psychiatry c. Psychoanalysis d. Psychology e. sociology 3. A historical school of psychology that sought to understand how the brain works by studying perception and perceptual learning; believed that percepts consist of meaningful wholes (in German, Gestalts). a. Psychology b. Gestalt psychology ...
Evolutionary Biology in 30 Minutes
... parents' genes. It is statistically unlikely that ospring will have the same allele frequencies as their parents. Drift occurs in every nite population, i.e. every real population. Drift is stronger in small populations than in large populations. Because of drift, even favored alleles can be lost ...
... parents' genes. It is statistically unlikely that ospring will have the same allele frequencies as their parents. Drift occurs in every nite population, i.e. every real population. Drift is stronger in small populations than in large populations. Because of drift, even favored alleles can be lost ...
Why Creativity is Sexy: for Creative Abilities in Humans
... To explore the truth of this view empirically, Nettle and Clegg (2006) studied a sample of contemporary British poets and artists and compared reported features of their sexual lives to those of a control group. In their study, people in the creative professions tended to have significantly more sex ...
... To explore the truth of this view empirically, Nettle and Clegg (2006) studied a sample of contemporary British poets and artists and compared reported features of their sexual lives to those of a control group. In their study, people in the creative professions tended to have significantly more sex ...
Homo sapiens - McGraw
... • the oldest known fossil of Homo sapiens is 130K years old and occurred in Africa • outside of Africa and the Middle East, the earliest known fossils of H. sapiens are no older than 40K years old • did Homo sapiens evolve first in Africa and then migrate to the rest of the world? ...
... • the oldest known fossil of Homo sapiens is 130K years old and occurred in Africa • outside of Africa and the Middle East, the earliest known fossils of H. sapiens are no older than 40K years old • did Homo sapiens evolve first in Africa and then migrate to the rest of the world? ...
698 702 704 commentary - College of Biological Sciences
... selection,” “expressed mathematically in a branch of game theory,” is the necessary alternative. We believe that their Review is profoundly misleading. In particular, we argue that “social selection” does not represent a novel view of reproductive behavior and that, far from being an alternative to ...
... selection,” “expressed mathematically in a branch of game theory,” is the necessary alternative. We believe that their Review is profoundly misleading. In particular, we argue that “social selection” does not represent a novel view of reproductive behavior and that, far from being an alternative to ...
Reprint
... selection,” “expressed mathematically in a branch of game theory,” is the necessary alternative. We believe that their Review is profoundly misleading. In particular, we argue that “social selection” does not represent a novel view of reproductive behavior and that, far from being an alternative to ...
... selection,” “expressed mathematically in a branch of game theory,” is the necessary alternative. We believe that their Review is profoundly misleading. In particular, we argue that “social selection” does not represent a novel view of reproductive behavior and that, far from being an alternative to ...
Evolutionary stasis, constraint and other
... of phylogenetic inertia’. In this case, the operating hypothesis is built on an adaptive framework and ES ends up being the alternative explanatory hypothesis (‘origin, not maintenance”, Coddington, 1988). The differences between these two interpretations are subtle but important. The latter case pu ...
... of phylogenetic inertia’. In this case, the operating hypothesis is built on an adaptive framework and ES ends up being the alternative explanatory hypothesis (‘origin, not maintenance”, Coddington, 1988). The differences between these two interpretations are subtle but important. The latter case pu ...
Evolutionary uniformitarianism
... patterns in types of variation upon which natural selection and other evolutionary processes could act. I present a new compilation of the first occurrences of marine invertebrate phyla, classes and equivalent stem groups during the Ediacaran, Cambrian and Ordovician, focusing on the Ediacaran–Cambri ...
... patterns in types of variation upon which natural selection and other evolutionary processes could act. I present a new compilation of the first occurrences of marine invertebrate phyla, classes and equivalent stem groups during the Ediacaran, Cambrian and Ordovician, focusing on the Ediacaran–Cambri ...
Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism
... the brain, in conjunction with the external and internal inputs—social, cultural, ecological, physiological—that interact with them to produce manifest behavior; (2) Evolution by selection is the only known causal process capable of creating such complex organic mechanisms (adaptations); (3) Evolved ...
... the brain, in conjunction with the external and internal inputs—social, cultural, ecological, physiological—that interact with them to produce manifest behavior; (2) Evolution by selection is the only known causal process capable of creating such complex organic mechanisms (adaptations); (3) Evolved ...
File - ISN Psychology
... chance of passing there genes to the next generations. Organisms with specific genetic traits that enhance survival are said to be naturally selected. They are more likely to survive and pass those traits on. Many of the traits that you have been passed down to you to help you survive. ...
... chance of passing there genes to the next generations. Organisms with specific genetic traits that enhance survival are said to be naturally selected. They are more likely to survive and pass those traits on. Many of the traits that you have been passed down to you to help you survive. ...
Beyond the Pleistocene: Using Phylogeny and
... a variety of different sources of evolutionary constraint, such as physical laws that keep large organisms earthbound and force their actions to have equal and opposite reactions (i.e., formal constraint; see Gould, 1989a). The present review focuses primarily on historical or phylogenetic constrain ...
... a variety of different sources of evolutionary constraint, such as physical laws that keep large organisms earthbound and force their actions to have equal and opposite reactions (i.e., formal constraint; see Gould, 1989a). The present review focuses primarily on historical or phylogenetic constrain ...
PSY 490 Week 1 The Diverse Nature of Psychology
... C. medical conditions found in geographic areas of the world D. cultural names for common conditions found around the world 13) Environmental psychology can be defined as a behavioral science that investigates the interrelationships between A. emotional motivations and human behavior B. biological c ...
... C. medical conditions found in geographic areas of the world D. cultural names for common conditions found around the world 13) Environmental psychology can be defined as a behavioral science that investigates the interrelationships between A. emotional motivations and human behavior B. biological c ...
Chapter 1
... Combinations of traits that are better adapted tend to increase representation in population Individuals are “units of selection” Variations occur through random changes yielding constant source of diversity, coupled with selection means that: Population is the “unit of evolution” Note the absence o ...
... Combinations of traits that are better adapted tend to increase representation in population Individuals are “units of selection” Variations occur through random changes yielding constant source of diversity, coupled with selection means that: Population is the “unit of evolution” Note the absence o ...