Taking Evolution Seriously: Historical Institutionalism and
... to confusions and overextensions of sociobiological theories of inclusive fitness. However, conceptual confusion also helps explain the intellectual isolation of political scientists from the powerful theoretical machinery associated with what is known, among evolutionary theorists, as the “Neo-Darw ...
... to confusions and overextensions of sociobiological theories of inclusive fitness. However, conceptual confusion also helps explain the intellectual isolation of political scientists from the powerful theoretical machinery associated with what is known, among evolutionary theorists, as the “Neo-Darw ...
Full citation: Hamblin, Jacob D. (ed.), Roundtable Review of
... changes for all those populations” (5) carries on a tradition at least as old as James Malin of studying, as Richard White put it, “the reciprocal influences of environmental and social change.”7 Co ...
... changes for all those populations” (5) carries on a tradition at least as old as James Malin of studying, as Richard White put it, “the reciprocal influences of environmental and social change.”7 Co ...
Cultural Niche Construction
... technical traditions, we can model the temporally and geographically uneven appearance of technical traditions in extant nonhuman primates, and by extension, the uneven presence of specific technical traditions in ancestral humans. ...
... technical traditions, we can model the temporally and geographically uneven appearance of technical traditions in extant nonhuman primates, and by extension, the uneven presence of specific technical traditions in ancestral humans. ...
Potential rapid evolution of foot morphology in Italian plethodontid
... Introduction Abrupt environmental changes expose organisms to novel ecological challenges, which in turn can elicit rapid evolutionary responses in those phenotypic traits that enable organismal survival (Hoffman & Hercus, 2000; Hendry et al., 2008). As such, examining the tempo of evolution is one ...
... Introduction Abrupt environmental changes expose organisms to novel ecological challenges, which in turn can elicit rapid evolutionary responses in those phenotypic traits that enable organismal survival (Hoffman & Hercus, 2000; Hendry et al., 2008). As such, examining the tempo of evolution is one ...
curriculum vitae - University of New Mexico
... as fitness indicators (costly, reliable signals of underlying phenotypic traits and genetic quality). Dimensional models of individual differences that integrate intelligence, personality, mental health, physical health, and socio-sexual attractiveness measures. Identifying fitness indicators throu ...
... as fitness indicators (costly, reliable signals of underlying phenotypic traits and genetic quality). Dimensional models of individual differences that integrate intelligence, personality, mental health, physical health, and socio-sexual attractiveness measures. Identifying fitness indicators throu ...
Reasoning About Natural Selection: Diagnosing
... important implications for teaching evolution. First, curricula about evolution and natural selection require much care in the choice of the “cover stories” (such as bacterial resistance to antibiotics) that are used to illustrate evolutionary change. Ideally, such examples would represent a diversi ...
... important implications for teaching evolution. First, curricula about evolution and natural selection require much care in the choice of the “cover stories” (such as bacterial resistance to antibiotics) that are used to illustrate evolutionary change. Ideally, such examples would represent a diversi ...
Toward an Evolutionary Psychology of Religion and
... of variability in the incidence of calluses is explained by differential experience (e.g., walking barefoot, playing guitar). EP should not be confused with behavior genetics (D’Onofrio, Eaves, Murrelle, Maes, & Spilka, this volume): Whereas the latter focuses on how biology (genes) makes us differe ...
... of variability in the incidence of calluses is explained by differential experience (e.g., walking barefoot, playing guitar). EP should not be confused with behavior genetics (D’Onofrio, Eaves, Murrelle, Maes, & Spilka, this volume): Whereas the latter focuses on how biology (genes) makes us differe ...
Chapter 23. MACROEVOLUTION: MICROEVOLUTIONARY
... that is left is a descriptive narration of historical events using informal folk categories. Each case of an evolutionary history may be unique, but the cases as a whole fall into patterns underlain by understandable processes. The patterns and common processes then tell us much about why each case ...
... that is left is a descriptive narration of historical events using informal folk categories. Each case of an evolutionary history may be unique, but the cases as a whole fall into patterns underlain by understandable processes. The patterns and common processes then tell us much about why each case ...
Sex differences in spatial abilities
... domain-general trait does not take into consideration the process that is involvedvi. Furthermore, identifying the possibility of domain-specificity in human cognition leads to the recognition of a consequent possibility: The human mind is likely to consist of a series of domain-specific mechanisms ...
... domain-general trait does not take into consideration the process that is involvedvi. Furthermore, identifying the possibility of domain-specificity in human cognition leads to the recognition of a consequent possibility: The human mind is likely to consist of a series of domain-specific mechanisms ...
article - British Academy
... this regard at least, we should not permit the present to shape our expectations about the past. The dominant pattern we see throughout the human evolutionary record is, in fact, one of diversity rather than of linearity. It has also been one of highly episodic major innovation, so that overall our ...
... this regard at least, we should not permit the present to shape our expectations about the past. The dominant pattern we see throughout the human evolutionary record is, in fact, one of diversity rather than of linearity. It has also been one of highly episodic major innovation, so that overall our ...
Picking Holes in the Concept of Natural Selection
... be true without having to be underwritten by universal laws of selection. Instead, they can be underwritten by context-sensitive mathematical models, such as models of predator–prey dynamics or population genetic models. Or they can be underwritten by causal explanations that specify and describe th ...
... be true without having to be underwritten by universal laws of selection. Instead, they can be underwritten by context-sensitive mathematical models, such as models of predator–prey dynamics or population genetic models. Or they can be underwritten by causal explanations that specify and describe th ...
darwin`s other mistake - The Rose, Mueller, and Greer Laboratories
... We are taught early in our education as evolutionists that Charles Darwin got the mechanism of heredity wrong. He supposed that there are an arbitrary number of ductile transmissible gemmules that migrate from the organs to the gonads, allowing the possibility of a kind of blending inheritance along ...
... We are taught early in our education as evolutionists that Charles Darwin got the mechanism of heredity wrong. He supposed that there are an arbitrary number of ductile transmissible gemmules that migrate from the organs to the gonads, allowing the possibility of a kind of blending inheritance along ...
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A
... evangelists. Moreover, as Sahlins argues, it is not even clear that human sacrifice was an adaptation at all. Human cultural practices can be orthogenetic and drive toward extinction in ways that Darwinian processes, based on genetic selection, cannot. Since each new monarch had to outdo his predeces ...
... evangelists. Moreover, as Sahlins argues, it is not even clear that human sacrifice was an adaptation at all. Human cultural practices can be orthogenetic and drive toward extinction in ways that Darwinian processes, based on genetic selection, cannot. Since each new monarch had to outdo his predeces ...
Lecture Slides - Boston University
... Cognitive Complexity: Informational Approach cont. Complexity of cognition measured by kinds of information animals extract from environment Concrete features of the environment: percepts (redness); bound representations ([this] poppy) Abstract features of the environment: concepts (flower; mate), ...
... Cognitive Complexity: Informational Approach cont. Complexity of cognition measured by kinds of information animals extract from environment Concrete features of the environment: percepts (redness); bound representations ([this] poppy) Abstract features of the environment: concepts (flower; mate), ...
Fodor vs Darwin_ pe_10_6 - Philsci
... Fisher’s principle has often been celebrated as one of the most remarkable achievements of evolutionary biology (Edwards, 1998). This is so not only because it successfully explains the observed 1:1 sex ratio in most species but also because it implies the empirically confirmed prediction that if in ...
... Fisher’s principle has often been celebrated as one of the most remarkable achievements of evolutionary biology (Edwards, 1998). This is so not only because it successfully explains the observed 1:1 sex ratio in most species but also because it implies the empirically confirmed prediction that if in ...
Social Evolution
... not whether Darwin’s views were applicable to the study of society, but whether the study of social evolution appropriately stresses competition among individuals within a society, or the cooperative nature of successful societies—ideas, as we have just seen, that can be found side-by-side in Darwin ...
... not whether Darwin’s views were applicable to the study of society, but whether the study of social evolution appropriately stresses competition among individuals within a society, or the cooperative nature of successful societies—ideas, as we have just seen, that can be found side-by-side in Darwin ...
Phenotypes, Genotypes
... La Jolla, CA 92037 [email protected] ABSTRACT Evolutionary computation can be conducted at various levels of abstraction (e.g., genes, individuals, species). Recent claims have been made that simulated evolution can be made more biologically accurate by applying specific genetic operators that ...
... La Jolla, CA 92037 [email protected] ABSTRACT Evolutionary computation can be conducted at various levels of abstraction (e.g., genes, individuals, species). Recent claims have been made that simulated evolution can be made more biologically accurate by applying specific genetic operators that ...
Social Evolution
... whether Darwin’s views were applicable to the study of society, but whether the study of social evolution appropriately stresses competition among individuals within a society, or the cooperative nature of successful societies—ideas, as we have just seen, that can be found side-by-side in Darwin. Al ...
... whether Darwin’s views were applicable to the study of society, but whether the study of social evolution appropriately stresses competition among individuals within a society, or the cooperative nature of successful societies—ideas, as we have just seen, that can be found side-by-side in Darwin. Al ...
Does Biology Have Laws? The Experimental Evidence
... best put in functional terms. If we think of the phenomena to be observed as a variabledependenton certain other independentvariables, then the deliberate change and/or control of some or all of these independentvariablesis what I mean by manipulation. The key to the second contrast-that betweenexpe ...
... best put in functional terms. If we think of the phenomena to be observed as a variabledependenton certain other independentvariables, then the deliberate change and/or control of some or all of these independentvariablesis what I mean by manipulation. The key to the second contrast-that betweenexpe ...
TECHNOLOGICAL DESIGN AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
... The result of these three principles, then, is evolution by natural selection: traits that enhance fitness proliferate in future generations, and individuals in a species are increasingly equipped with such traits. This is assuming that the local environment in which selection takes place remains th ...
... The result of these three principles, then, is evolution by natural selection: traits that enhance fitness proliferate in future generations, and individuals in a species are increasingly equipped with such traits. This is assuming that the local environment in which selection takes place remains th ...
Evolutionary uniformitarianism
... processes, including the types of variation, are essentially invariant through time. Recent studies demonstrate that this uniformitarian assumption is false, suggesting that the types of variation may vary through time. Published by Elsevier Inc. ...
... processes, including the types of variation, are essentially invariant through time. Recent studies demonstrate that this uniformitarian assumption is false, suggesting that the types of variation may vary through time. Published by Elsevier Inc. ...
introduction ernst mayr and the theory of evolution
... species, which is of no lasting consequence in evolution because, according to de Vries, it could not “lead to a transgression of the species border even under conditions of the most stringent and continued selection.” The other consists of the changes brought about by mutations, spontaneous alterat ...
... species, which is of no lasting consequence in evolution because, according to de Vries, it could not “lead to a transgression of the species border even under conditions of the most stringent and continued selection.” The other consists of the changes brought about by mutations, spontaneous alterat ...
The Arts After Darwin
... theorists of children’s play), these hypotheses claim that fiction safely presents vicarious experience of adaptive information to cognitive systems that are involved with foresight, planning, and empathy, thereby providing risk-free practice for later life when similar circumstances might arise (e. ...
... theorists of children’s play), these hypotheses claim that fiction safely presents vicarious experience of adaptive information to cognitive systems that are involved with foresight, planning, and empathy, thereby providing risk-free practice for later life when similar circumstances might arise (e. ...
Evolutionary Biology in 30 Minutes
... 1860s-1920s: Evolution accepted by the scientic community, but doubts about natural selection abound. 1866: Mendel publishes his laws of inheritance, rediscovered in 1900. 1920s-1940s: Modern synthesis of genetics and evolution, rmly establishing importance of natural selection. 1953: Watson and C ...
... 1860s-1920s: Evolution accepted by the scientic community, but doubts about natural selection abound. 1866: Mendel publishes his laws of inheritance, rediscovered in 1900. 1920s-1940s: Modern synthesis of genetics and evolution, rmly establishing importance of natural selection. 1953: Watson and C ...