Workflow - iPlant Pods
... By the end of this module you should be able to: • Create a linear workflow of applications within the DE • Edit a workflow (order of applications/mapping of inputs • Publish a workflow in your development space • Run a workflow within the DE ...
... By the end of this module you should be able to: • Create a linear workflow of applications within the DE • Edit a workflow (order of applications/mapping of inputs • Publish a workflow in your development space • Run a workflow within the DE ...
Evolution on purpose: how behaviour has shaped the evolutionary
... Darwin was deeply opposed to this formulation, although he did recognize Lamarck’s role in championing the then unpopular view that life on Earth had gradually evolved. Lamarck is best-known, even infamous, for his thesis that the course of evolution has also been shaped by ‘habits acquired by condi ...
... Darwin was deeply opposed to this formulation, although he did recognize Lamarck’s role in championing the then unpopular view that life on Earth had gradually evolved. Lamarck is best-known, even infamous, for his thesis that the course of evolution has also been shaped by ‘habits acquired by condi ...
Evolutionarily stable disequilibrium: endless dynamics of evolution
... Evolution is often conceived as changes in the properties of a population over generations [1–3]. When different forces of evolution are constant in space and time, these properties eventually reach equilibrium, a well-known example being the mutation-selection balance. According to the above notion ...
... Evolution is often conceived as changes in the properties of a population over generations [1–3]. When different forces of evolution are constant in space and time, these properties eventually reach equilibrium, a well-known example being the mutation-selection balance. According to the above notion ...
Evolutionarily stable disequilibrium: endless
... Evolution is often conceived as changes in the properties of a population over generations [1–3]. When different forces of evolution are constant in space and time, these properties eventually reach equilibrium, a well-known example being the mutation-selection balance. According to the above notion ...
... Evolution is often conceived as changes in the properties of a population over generations [1–3]. When different forces of evolution are constant in space and time, these properties eventually reach equilibrium, a well-known example being the mutation-selection balance. According to the above notion ...
Handout-Fossil Record and Early Man
... The fossils of early man when looked at as an overall category all support special creation. They appear fully formed and fully human in the fossil record. They appear in the earliest strata as would be expected if they were created. The various fossil men all were contemporaries of each other for l ...
... The fossils of early man when looked at as an overall category all support special creation. They appear fully formed and fully human in the fossil record. They appear in the earliest strata as would be expected if they were created. The various fossil men all were contemporaries of each other for l ...
The Evolution of Human Behavior: The Darwinian Revolution
... earth available in the nineteenth century (provided by Lord Kelvin) were between 10 and 15 million years, far too young even by Darwin’s reckoning to have allowed enough time for the evolution of all known extinct and extant species. Lord Kelvin’s estimates were based on the temperature of the inter ...
... earth available in the nineteenth century (provided by Lord Kelvin) were between 10 and 15 million years, far too young even by Darwin’s reckoning to have allowed enough time for the evolution of all known extinct and extant species. Lord Kelvin’s estimates were based on the temperature of the inter ...
Applied Evolutionary Epistemology: A new methodology to
... behavior, and how does it differ from the selectionist approach endorsed by scholars working within the new evolutionary sciences? 2.2.1 Causation and epistemic questions in evolutionary biology The classic field of Biology was introduced by the Natural History students of the 19th century. It outda ...
... behavior, and how does it differ from the selectionist approach endorsed by scholars working within the new evolutionary sciences? 2.2.1 Causation and epistemic questions in evolutionary biology The classic field of Biology was introduced by the Natural History students of the 19th century. It outda ...
Slide 1
... Instead of the family of all possible fitness landscapes, we may consider only fitness peaks, and plot their locations under all possible environments. When the environment, and the fitness landscape, changes slightly, a peak usually responds by moving a little. However, occasionally a peak can dis ...
... Instead of the family of all possible fitness landscapes, we may consider only fitness peaks, and plot their locations under all possible environments. When the environment, and the fitness landscape, changes slightly, a peak usually responds by moving a little. However, occasionally a peak can dis ...
Slide 1
... life as a fact. Relax and fear not - my job is to teach you biology, and not to 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 succeed in this, but still believe that the Earth was created 6,000 year ...
... life as a fact. Relax and fear not - my job is to teach you biology, and not to 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 succeed in this, but still believe that the Earth was created 6,000 year ...
Tempo, mode and phylogenetic associations of relative embryo size
... tendency for related taxa to resemble each other, with no implication as to the cause of such a resemblance. If k is not significantly different from zero, then related taxa are not more similar than expected by chance, and therefore the trait is evolving among the species as if they were independen ...
... tendency for related taxa to resemble each other, with no implication as to the cause of such a resemblance. If k is not significantly different from zero, then related taxa are not more similar than expected by chance, and therefore the trait is evolving among the species as if they were independen ...
syllabus - University of West Florida
... Psychology 2012 is intended to serve as a general overview of the field of psychology. The course will be valuable to all students, regardless of career path or major. The course will provide you with a broad introduction to the various specialties in psychology: personality, development, abnormal, ...
... Psychology 2012 is intended to serve as a general overview of the field of psychology. The course will be valuable to all students, regardless of career path or major. The course will provide you with a broad introduction to the various specialties in psychology: personality, development, abnormal, ...
Potential rapid evolution of foot morphology in Italian plethodontid
... differences in evolutionary rates between closely related populations that inhabit distinct habitats or that experience shifts in ecological conditions. For instance, species invading new habitats (McPeek, 1995; Revell et al., 2007) or those introduced to new geographic localities (Klingenberg & Eka ...
... differences in evolutionary rates between closely related populations that inhabit distinct habitats or that experience shifts in ecological conditions. For instance, species invading new habitats (McPeek, 1995; Revell et al., 2007) or those introduced to new geographic localities (Klingenberg & Eka ...
Evolutionary Robotics - Repositório do ISCTE-IUL
... Similarly to more traditional evolutionary computation approaches, evolutionary robotics techniques operate with a population of candidate solutions or genomes. Each genome in the population encodes a number of parameters of one or more robots’ body plan or control system, the phenotype (see Fig. 1) ...
... Similarly to more traditional evolutionary computation approaches, evolutionary robotics techniques operate with a population of candidate solutions or genomes. Each genome in the population encodes a number of parameters of one or more robots’ body plan or control system, the phenotype (see Fig. 1) ...
How Do Things Evolve? - James Madison University
... Putting astronomical observations and astrophysical theory together with their observations and calculations, Meibom and colleagues come up with a complicated picture of the solar nebula. There is a hot central disk, which may be uniform in temperature near the Sun. The temperature is lower farther ...
... Putting astronomical observations and astrophysical theory together with their observations and calculations, Meibom and colleagues come up with a complicated picture of the solar nebula. There is a hot central disk, which may be uniform in temperature near the Sun. The temperature is lower farther ...
Darwinian Fitness & Directionality Theory
... Growth rate r characterizes Darwinian Fitness: Malthusian Principle: r predicts the outcome of competition between variant and incumbent types ...
... Growth rate r characterizes Darwinian Fitness: Malthusian Principle: r predicts the outcome of competition between variant and incumbent types ...
Morphological disparity
... factors (such as changes in rates of character evolution and the scale of innovation, phylogenetic burden, and lineage duration) as well as extrinsic factors (such as ...
... factors (such as changes in rates of character evolution and the scale of innovation, phylogenetic burden, and lineage duration) as well as extrinsic factors (such as ...
The evolutionary approach to human behaviour
... same argument still persists today, although culture now replaces God as the means by which we are able to rise above the beasts. Of course, in a very real sense, this is true: the impact of culture on human behaviour is enormous and not to be underestimated. The very fact that you are sitting her ...
... same argument still persists today, although culture now replaces God as the means by which we are able to rise above the beasts. Of course, in a very real sense, this is true: the impact of culture on human behaviour is enormous and not to be underestimated. The very fact that you are sitting her ...
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... the parts of those organism were selected for in their ancestors, then we face a vicious regress • Therefore, a purely causal analysis of the adaptive role played by parts of ancestral organisms must be possible without knowing what those parts were adaptations for • Furthermore, ancestral organisms ...
... the parts of those organism were selected for in their ancestors, then we face a vicious regress • Therefore, a purely causal analysis of the adaptive role played by parts of ancestral organisms must be possible without knowing what those parts were adaptations for • Furthermore, ancestral organisms ...
what does genetic selection miss?
... intentional agent that acts like a super-agent would be expected to do. It is important to notice that Darwin was not prepared to sustain such an interpretation (however see Richards 1993, who argues that he may have been). And neither should we, for this would imply a very crude reification of the ...
... intentional agent that acts like a super-agent would be expected to do. It is important to notice that Darwin was not prepared to sustain such an interpretation (however see Richards 1993, who argues that he may have been). And neither should we, for this would imply a very crude reification of the ...
Phenotypes, Genotypes
... In contrast, evolution strategies, and evolutionary programming may be purely phenotypic (operating only on parameters that are placed directly into the fitness function and evaluated), or purely genetic (operating on parameters that are used to generate behavior in light of external “environmental” ...
... In contrast, evolution strategies, and evolutionary programming may be purely phenotypic (operating only on parameters that are placed directly into the fitness function and evaluated), or purely genetic (operating on parameters that are used to generate behavior in light of external “environmental” ...
LENScience Senior Biology Seminar Series Walking Upright: The
... In biological terms, humans sit with the great apes within the hominoid group but are distinguished within this group by specific physical and behavioural traits including bipedalism, brain size, hairlessness, tool making, language development, abstract thought, s ...
... In biological terms, humans sit with the great apes within the hominoid group but are distinguished within this group by specific physical and behavioural traits including bipedalism, brain size, hairlessness, tool making, language development, abstract thought, s ...
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 ...
Morality as an Emergent Property of Human Interaction
... intuitive, emotional4 aspects of moral judgements [5], [6]. In particular, Jonathan Haidt and collaborators have developed a theory called Moral Foundations Theory (summarized in Figure 3) which emphasizes the intuitive primacy of moral judgements. According to the theory, moral judgements stem from ...
... intuitive, emotional4 aspects of moral judgements [5], [6]. In particular, Jonathan Haidt and collaborators have developed a theory called Moral Foundations Theory (summarized in Figure 3) which emphasizes the intuitive primacy of moral judgements. According to the theory, moral judgements stem from ...
Psychology 4145 -- Cognitive Psychology
... • myth, religion, and social ritual • specialize, complex, multi-component tools and ...
... • myth, religion, and social ritual • specialize, complex, multi-component tools and ...
Commentary Evolution in the light of developmental and cell biology
... different combinations. This concept draws attention to a point (35) previously overlooked in discussions of modularity and combinatorial evolution: modules that are developmentally recombined must be not only dissociable but also able to function and respond in many contexts, rather than being so p ...
... different combinations. This concept draws attention to a point (35) previously overlooked in discussions of modularity and combinatorial evolution: modules that are developmentally recombined must be not only dissociable but also able to function and respond in many contexts, rather than being so p ...