How is BioLogos different from Darwinism or Social
... "The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check o ...
... "The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Nor could we check o ...
Is evolution fundamental when it comes to defining biological
... I’ve used a numbering system to indicate where there is repetition or where different definitions constitute rivals for a single concept. The two concepts with the greatest number of alternative definitions are 1 and 2, which we may think of roughly as ‘evolutionary’ and ‘organisational’ concepts r ...
... I’ve used a numbering system to indicate where there is repetition or where different definitions constitute rivals for a single concept. The two concepts with the greatest number of alternative definitions are 1 and 2, which we may think of roughly as ‘evolutionary’ and ‘organisational’ concepts r ...
In order to understand a scientific theory, we should not only look at
... understanding the true organismal interactions and relationships present in the different ecosystems on Earth. All the data coming from these domains of research should be incorporated into a new biological informally, ...
... understanding the true organismal interactions and relationships present in the different ecosystems on Earth. All the data coming from these domains of research should be incorporated into a new biological informally, ...
Lecture 1
... Internal adaptation: precise coordination and harmonious interaction between different parts of an organism at all levels of structure (molecular, subcellular, cellular, organs, systems of organs) External adaptation: tight correlation between characters of the organism and certain properties of the ...
... Internal adaptation: precise coordination and harmonious interaction between different parts of an organism at all levels of structure (molecular, subcellular, cellular, organs, systems of organs) External adaptation: tight correlation between characters of the organism and certain properties of the ...
Darwinian Coevolution of Organizations and the
... inheritance may have a wider applicability than to biological organisms alone, including to the evolution of human society. William James (1880, 441) opened a prescient essay with the observation of a „remarkable parallel … between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zoölogical evo ...
... inheritance may have a wider applicability than to biological organisms alone, including to the evolution of human society. William James (1880, 441) opened a prescient essay with the observation of a „remarkable parallel … between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zoölogical evo ...
Morality as an Emergent Property of Human Interaction
... The concept of operant conditioning, wherein actions taken by an individual are positively or negatively reinforced as a result of their consequences, was central to behaviorist theories. When applied to questions of morality, this emphasis on conditioning and learned behavior led to the conclusion ...
... The concept of operant conditioning, wherein actions taken by an individual are positively or negatively reinforced as a result of their consequences, was central to behaviorist theories. When applied to questions of morality, this emphasis on conditioning and learned behavior led to the conclusion ...
The origin/change of major body plans during the Cambrian
... ------------------------(IV) Standards: Grades 8-12 S3B3In.3 additional specificity. "Whether microevolution (change within a species) can be extrapolated to explain macroevolutionary changes (such as new complex organs or body plans and new biochemical systems which appear irreducibly complex) is c ...
... ------------------------(IV) Standards: Grades 8-12 S3B3In.3 additional specificity. "Whether microevolution (change within a species) can be extrapolated to explain macroevolutionary changes (such as new complex organs or body plans and new biochemical systems which appear irreducibly complex) is c ...
LENScience Senior Biology Seminar Series Walking Upright: The
... Box 1: The concept of FITNESS is central to understanding evolution. Evolutionary fitness is a measure of the match between an individual and its environment to best enable successful reproduction. It is important to note that fitness is measured as the a ...
... Box 1: The concept of FITNESS is central to understanding evolution. Evolutionary fitness is a measure of the match between an individual and its environment to best enable successful reproduction. It is important to note that fitness is measured as the a ...
the peirce-baldwin effect and its contemporary significance
... First, I will focus on two such re-interpretations, James M. Baldwin’s 1896 theory of organic selection, ontogenetic adaptation, and social heritability, and Charles Peirce’s agapastic, nonLamarckian and anti-Spencerian evolution sketched in his “Evolutionary Love” (1893). I will argue that, in inte ...
... First, I will focus on two such re-interpretations, James M. Baldwin’s 1896 theory of organic selection, ontogenetic adaptation, and social heritability, and Charles Peirce’s agapastic, nonLamarckian and anti-Spencerian evolution sketched in his “Evolutionary Love” (1893). I will argue that, in inte ...
Fundamental Questions in Biology
... Are there particular conditions that select for novelty and for high mutation or recombination rates? What about for cooperative behavior? What is the relationship between the distribution of specific viral genes and the genes of other organisms, and can we begin to infer from this distributional inf ...
... Are there particular conditions that select for novelty and for high mutation or recombination rates? What about for cooperative behavior? What is the relationship between the distribution of specific viral genes and the genes of other organisms, and can we begin to infer from this distributional inf ...
Evolutionary Algorithms
... small variations in phenotypes (e.g., height, eye color) Genetic differences between parents and children are due to mutations/recombinations ...
... small variations in phenotypes (e.g., height, eye color) Genetic differences between parents and children are due to mutations/recombinations ...
Information Systems Theorizing Based on Evolutionary Psychology
... of the original theory of evolution. Much of that progress has been made by researchers who resorted to mathematical formalizations of evolutionary phenomena building on fundamentals of genetics (Hartl and Clark 2007), and who published their conclusions primarily in academic journals. By and large ...
... of the original theory of evolution. Much of that progress has been made by researchers who resorted to mathematical formalizations of evolutionary phenomena building on fundamentals of genetics (Hartl and Clark 2007), and who published their conclusions primarily in academic journals. By and large ...
Evolutionary Algorithms
... small variations in phenotypes (e.g., height, eye color) Genetic differences between parents and children are due to mutations/recombinations ...
... small variations in phenotypes (e.g., height, eye color) Genetic differences between parents and children are due to mutations/recombinations ...
E3_Selection_2011 Part 3
... garden and exposing them to different levels of UVR. Question: What do you think is the basis for the differences in tolerance? ...
... garden and exposing them to different levels of UVR. Question: What do you think is the basis for the differences in tolerance? ...
Evolution and inequality - Oxford Academic
... Modern evolutionary theory (specifically, evolutionary ecology) is concerned with how organisms in particular ecological niches solved the adaptive problems that they had to solve in order to leave descendants. It is now accepted that risk and uncertainty ...
... Modern evolutionary theory (specifically, evolutionary ecology) is concerned with how organisms in particular ecological niches solved the adaptive problems that they had to solve in order to leave descendants. It is now accepted that risk and uncertainty ...
Learning Activity 1: Introduction to Natural
... Follow this up with a discussion about natural selection, questions you might like to include are: Which beetles were more likely to survive from you, the predators? Why? What might happen with the beetle populations over time? And why might this occur? What is the name for this process? Who ...
... Follow this up with a discussion about natural selection, questions you might like to include are: Which beetles were more likely to survive from you, the predators? Why? What might happen with the beetle populations over time? And why might this occur? What is the name for this process? Who ...
Chapter 5 Evolution Matters: Human Variation Today
... Chapter 5 Evolution Matters: Human Variation Today Synopsis: The biocultural approach of physical anthropology emphasizes that human evolution and variation are shaped by both biology and culture—that is, by genetic factors and environmental factors. Physical anthropologists employ such an understan ...
... Chapter 5 Evolution Matters: Human Variation Today Synopsis: The biocultural approach of physical anthropology emphasizes that human evolution and variation are shaped by both biology and culture—that is, by genetic factors and environmental factors. Physical anthropologists employ such an understan ...
Not by Design: Retiring Darwin`s Watchmaker
... In this book, I try to show that the concept of natural selection is often invoked to explain evolutionary transformations for which we have no evidence that the mechanism of natural selection, as currently understood, was wholly or even partially responsible for the transformation. I argue that we ...
... In this book, I try to show that the concept of natural selection is often invoked to explain evolutionary transformations for which we have no evidence that the mechanism of natural selection, as currently understood, was wholly or even partially responsible for the transformation. I argue that we ...
PDF 0.8 MB - National Centers for Systems Biology
... Method and Logic in Quantitative Biology (II) Smith and Waterman 1981. Identification of common molecular subsequences Felsenstein 1981. Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: a maximum likelihood approach. Eisen JA. 1998. A phylogenomic study of the MutS family of proteins. Eisen MB et al., 1998. ...
... Method and Logic in Quantitative Biology (II) Smith and Waterman 1981. Identification of common molecular subsequences Felsenstein 1981. Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: a maximum likelihood approach. Eisen JA. 1998. A phylogenomic study of the MutS family of proteins. Eisen MB et al., 1998. ...
Evolution Module - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... them were better able to solve the adaptive problem of damage due to repeated friction; they survived and reproduced more than their counterparts who did not develop these mechanisms. Such evolutionary processes—ultimate causation—have shaped the behavior of different species over hundreds of genera ...
... them were better able to solve the adaptive problem of damage due to repeated friction; they survived and reproduced more than their counterparts who did not develop these mechanisms. Such evolutionary processes—ultimate causation—have shaped the behavior of different species over hundreds of genera ...
what does genetic selection miss?
... logy in ways that Darwin himself could never have predicted. What I want to suggest concerning this change of focus is that the logic of neo-Darwinian biology has somehow gone astray in the process by ignoring fundamental aspects of how evolution functions. This is not to say that the synthetic theo ...
... logy in ways that Darwin himself could never have predicted. What I want to suggest concerning this change of focus is that the logic of neo-Darwinian biology has somehow gone astray in the process by ignoring fundamental aspects of how evolution functions. This is not to say that the synthetic theo ...
Dynamics and adaptation in human cumulative culture
... culture. This finding also has important implications for the field of mathematical modeling, since many commonly considered social learning strategies do not facilitate cumulative change. The relationship between population dynamics and culture has also been studied; demonstrating that under certain ...
... culture. This finding also has important implications for the field of mathematical modeling, since many commonly considered social learning strategies do not facilitate cumulative change. The relationship between population dynamics and culture has also been studied; demonstrating that under certain ...