• Transhumanism uses evolution and biology to imagine the future, which is why it is here put in relation to evolutionary thought developed after Darwin, including ideas that would not be termed Darwinian in the strict scientific sense of the word, as well as evolutionary ideas that tended toward opposition to some of the perceived implications of Darwinism. (lu.se)
  • This project will contribute to reconstructing the cognitive and evolutionary origins of fire use. (lu.se)
  • In his project, he investigates religious narratives about future end times scenarios from the perspective of computational narratology and the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion. (lu.se)
  • Lauritz Holm Petersen, a PhD fellow in the Study of Religion at Aarhus University, investigates religious narratives about future end times scenarios from the perspective of computational narratology and the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion. (lu.se)
  • Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization, from kingdoms to species, and individual organisms and molecules, such as DNA and proteins. (wikipedia.org)
  • While in China, especially the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) and adjacent regions, considerable research achievements have also been attained on inferring the Quaternary phylogeographic histories of plant species based on the approach of population genetics (e.g. (frontiersin.org)
  • The scientists used the DNA of the various spider species to reconstruct the history of how they evolved. (singularityhub.com)
  • Although these scenarios are probably poorly suited for predicting the future distributions of pines and other species, they provide good indications of the magnitude of biogeographic change that we should expect. (risingtidenorthamerica.org)
  • He said future directions for the study included pinpointing the exact types of gene functions involved and to understanding the broader consequences of male-female interactions and their relevance to the evolutionary history of other species. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems. (livescience.com)
  • But having many diverse species also proved no guarantee of future success for any one group of animals, given that mass extinctions more or less wiped the slate clean, according to studies such as the latest one. (livescience.com)
  • Now, researchers have found the missing pieces of evolutionary history of two-pore channels in a species of liverwort. (sciencedaily.com)
  • With focus on invertebrate evolution, ontogenetic analyses of marine larvae and evolutionary questions related to the origin of organ systems and cell types, he is culturing and investigating several marine invertebrate species - a vast majority of them Annelida. (uni-goettingen.de)
  • The next largest category (6 articles) included papers describing evolutionary selection pressures on infectious organisms, either in the natural environment or in host species. (cdc.gov)
  • All sounds in the ocean constitutes the sound environment and the marine species therein are evolutionary adapted to live in this cacophony. (lu.se)
  • The nonrecombining female-limited W chromosome is predicted to experience unique evolutionary processes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Taken together, our results have revealed a unique evolutionary pattern and an independent stratum evolutionary pattern for sex chromosomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Knowing the high genetic diversity of bat CoVs, we carried out a systematic phylogenetic study of the viruses and their hosts to examine evolutionary relationships between bat CoVs and bats. (cdc.gov)
  • Research applying genomic methods to develop treatments or vaccines, to understand antimicrobial mechanisms of resistance, and to examine evolutionary processes were also included. (cdc.gov)
  • Armed with an arctic suit, gloves, thermals, enough dry food to last two weeks, a satellite phone and rifle for protection from the polar bears, Kliti and her team were there to sample the largest extinction event in the Earth's history, across the Permian-Triassic boundary. (edu.au)
  • Initial sessions will provide an overview of the history of human impacts on the structure and functioning of the Earth's ecosystems. (queensu.ca)
  • But that diversity limit also appears to have changed spontaneously throughout Earth's history about every 200 million years. (livescience.com)
  • The Earth's future billions of years from now. (lu.se)
  • It's All for the Best: Optimization in the History of Science," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics , January 2021, pp. 54-80. (pitzer.edu)
  • Evolutionary medicine can apply insights from evolution and ecology to spark transformational innovation in biomedicine and inform effective health policies. (evmedreview.com)
  • Today's ID the Future spotlights The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, and specifically, an essay in the new anthology by biologist Jonathan Wells, "Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis? (idthefuture.com)
  • The evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley (1887-1975) attempted to promote a "religion for the future," which he would come to refer to as Transhumanism. (lu.se)
  • This study explores the history of transhumanism by analyzing how Huxley's transhumanism develops and why it does at this particular point in time, by placing it firmly within the context of his specific scientific and sociopolitical milieu, starting roughly in the interwar years and stretching over the Second World War to the 1970s. (lu.se)
  • Controlling Destiny explores the history of transhumanism through a study of Julian Huxley's (1887-1975) post-Darwinian evolutionism and ideas of mankind's growing power to shape its own evolutionary future. (lu.se)
  • Revealing the urgency of the environmental and economic problems facing coastal North Carolina, this essential book offers a hopeful vision for the coast's future if we are willing to adapt to the barriers' ongoing and natural processes. (uncpress.org)
  • Transhumanism was also an attempt to unite a more traditional humanistic view of the human as containing some form of core essence or potential with an evolutionary point of view of humans as a work in progress. (lu.se)
  • Opinion by Peter M Nilsson, professor of history of medicine, Lund University Throughout their evolutionary development, humans have adapted to new environments, infectious agents and other health risks. (lu.se)
  • Å the unprecedented rates of climate change predicted in many future scenarios may outstrip the natural capacity of pines to disperse into newly suitable territory. (risingtidenorthamerica.org)
  • They did outline some broad lessons for the future of viruses like SARS-CoV-2, and several general scenarios for how the coronavirus could continue to evolve. (vox.com)
  • Effective management of the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and future zoonotic outbreaks requires applying evolutionary theories to understand and model infection dynamics and create models of future scenarios. (evmedreview.com)
  • Multiple analyses of these genomic data suggest that hybridization events have occurred throughout Ficus evolutionary history. (nature.com)
  • Phylogenetic analyses showed multiple incongruent associations between the phylogenies of rhinolophid bats and their CoVs, which suggested that host shifts have occurred in the recent evolutionary history of this group. (cdc.gov)
  • The results of the phylogenetic analyses provided some intriguing insights into the evolutionary history of M. polymorpha. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In a recent study, a team of researchers led by Prof. Kazuyuki Kuchitsu from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, collaborated with researchers from Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland, to explore the evolutionary and physiological significance of two-pore channels in the non-flowering bryophyte Marchantia polymorpha. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Reminiscences, History, and Visions for the Future of AWM, Published by Springer and the Association for Women in Mathematics, 2022. (pitzer.edu)
  • Here, we suggest that these pollinator host-switches and fig hybridization events are a dominant feature of fig/wasp coevolutionary history, and by generating novel genomic combinations in the figs have likely contributed to the remarkable diversity exhibited by this mutualism. (nature.com)
  • Associate Professor Chenoweth heads a laboratory in UQ that uses new genomic technology to answer questions of evolutionary behaviour. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Reeves carries the story from there through the neo-Darwinian modern synthesis and into the extended evolutionary synthesis, culminating in a 2016 meeting of the Royal Society on the theory's continuing - and still unresolved - explanatory deficits. (idthefuture.com)
  • Is evolution intelligent, with the sense to store information for future purposes? (creation.com)
  • Would Standing on the First Butterfly Really Change the History of Evolution? (singularityhub.com)
  • Evolutionary biologists have been holding a similar debate about how evolution works for decades. (singularityhub.com)
  • In it, he proposed a thought experiment: what would happen if you could replay life's tape, rewinding the history of evolution and running it again? (singularityhub.com)
  • On this ID the Future, Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe reads from A Mousetrap for Darwin, his latest book making the case against blind evolution and for intelligent design. (idthefuture.com)
  • Dobzhansky's ability to combine genetics and natural history attracted many other biologists to join him in the effort to find a unified explanation of how evolution happens. (berkeley.edu)
  • Their combined work, known as "The Modern Synthesis," brought together genetics, paleontology, systematics, and many other sciences into one powerful explanation of evolution, showing how mutations and natural selection could produce large-scale evolutionary change. (berkeley.edu)
  • The Modern Synthesis certainly did not bring the study of evolution to an end, but it became the foundation for future research. (berkeley.edu)
  • Many modern human diseases result from mismatches between the ecologies in which we evolved and our modern environments, while others reflect life-history evolution - these insights have important implications for public health policies and disease-prevention efforts. (evmedreview.com)
  • Huxley-along with likeminded future-oriented thinkers of his generation helped naturalize a way of thinking about a possible future and disseminate ideas about conscious human evolution and human enhancement into a wider sociotechnical imaginary. (lu.se)
  • The dissertation explains Huxley's transhumanism, as well as his influence on a new generation of futurists and suggests that his narrative about evolution and the future was perpetuated. (lu.se)
  • As the person responsible for coining the term transhumanism in English, and a promoter of a vanguard vision, Huxley-along with likeminded future-oriented thinkers of his generation-helped naturalize a way of thinking about a possible future and disseminate ideas about conscious evolution and human enhancement into a wider sociotechnical imaginary. (lu.se)
  • Data were collected on sociodemographics, risk profiles, drug use histories, drug and sexual risk behaviours, history of substance use treatment and incarceration, and pertinent infectious disease test results. (who.int)
  • 10. Heuristic Evolutionary Psychology, Armin W. Schulz. (politics-prose.com)
  • 11. Evolutionary Psychology and the Problem of Neural Plasticity, - Chuck Ward. (politics-prose.com)
  • This innate ability or desire in our minds to progress is being described as a new framework called evolutionary psychology. (medscape.com)
  • [ 5 ] Evolutionary psychology supports the hypothesis that knowledge acquisition and the adaptive regulation of behavior is a dynamic and progressive process. (medscape.com)
  • NHM employs one of the largest concentrations of earth and life scientists in Europe and is home to one of the world's most extensive collections of natural history specimens, an awe-inspiring resource of life on earth both past and present. (nature.com)
  • It is the future, and scientists have learned how to 'read' human DNA with such accuracy that they are able to predict our future health, as well as the careers that will be most suited to our abilities. (spiked-online.com)
  • A champion in her field, and the first Curtin female researcher to win this prestigious title, Kliti is a dedicated educator and mentor for WA's evolutionary scientists of tomorrow. (edu.au)
  • Here's what scientists do and don't know about the future of Covid-19. (vox.com)
  • Understanding the history of Aboriginal Australians, their origins and how their population changed over some 50,000-plus years has always been an enormous challenge. (iflscience.com)
  • Wells contends that modern evolutionary theory is a current instance of a dominant paradigm in crisis. (idthefuture.com)
  • The team's findings provide much-needed functional and evolutionary insights into the important-yet-elusive TPC family in plants, and on plant ion channels in general. (sciencedaily.com)
  • With their eye on future research, they also aim to use insights from the evolutionary history of plants for improving plant growth and defence mechanisms against biotic and abiotic stresses. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In other words, evolutionary economics have become stuck in old economical models. (detectivemarketing.com)
  • We offer a large number of courses in our subject area that provide indispensable and broad knowledge of economics, society and history, but which also facilitate the understanding of many other subjects, such as economics, sociology, political science. (lu.se)
  • On this episode of ID the Future we hear the first part of Discovery Institute Education Outreach Associate Daniel Reeves' talk at the 2020 Dallas Science and Faith Conference. (idthefuture.com)
  • What can we learn from our evolutionary past that will help us understand our current state, and chart a sustainable future? (queensu.ca)
  • Ficus (figs) and their agaonid wasp pollinators present an ecologically important mutualism that also provides a rich comparative system for studying functional co-diversification throughout its coevolutionary history (~75 million years). (nature.com)
  • In bats, R, Affinis, and R. Sinicus ACE2 showed very varied binding to RBD from both clades - which the researchers suggest is due to an evolutionary arms race. (news-medical.net)
  • Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and Philosophy of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. (iflscience.com)
  • The Natural History Museum (NHM) is a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. (nature.com)
  • To support the realisation of the NHM's vision of a future where both people and planet thrive, we focus our science on solutions from and for nature. (nature.com)
  • 7. Evolving the Future: Sketching a Science of Intentional Change, David Sloan Wilson. (politics-prose.com)
  • and we realized-I mean what anyone who is familiar with the history of science ought to realize-that when you have one-to-one ratios, it means things go to together. (todayinsci.com)
  • On this ID The Future, Liberty McArtor, host of the Know Why Podcast, interviews Jonathan Witt on the compatibility of science and faith, both past and present. (idthefuture.com)
  • It's All for the Best: Optimization in the History of Science," invited talk at the Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences Colloquium, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, September 2013. (pitzer.edu)
  • Optimization in the History of Science," invited address at the Southern California-Nevada Section of the Mathematical Association of America, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, April 14, 2012. (pitzer.edu)
  • It's All for the Best: Optimization in the History of Science and Mathematics," Nathan A. Court Endowed keynote Lecture at the Oklahoma-Arkansas Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR, March 31, 2012. (pitzer.edu)
  • This finding has implications for the emergence of SARS and for the potential future emergence of SARS-CoVs or related viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • Our results suggest host-pathogen divergence and host shifts in the recent evolutionary history of these viruses and their hosts. (cdc.gov)
  • Work on the construction of phylogenetic trees of variola viruses, conducted since the Committee's previous meeting, had further broadened understanding of their evolutionary history. (who.int)
  • Our community has developed a required (core) introductory undergraduate course in Foresight Development (futures studies education plus personal foresight skills practice). (accelerating.org)
  • You will have a background in a life sciences discipline that complements existing activity at the Museum and a track record of using natural history collections in your research. (nature.com)
  • A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications. (mdpi.com)
  • The results from this research will be used to plan future research opportunities to help increase our understanding about this organism using WGS. (food.gov.uk)
  • The development of treatments and vaccines (5 articles), methods and models for evaluating GxE (5 articles), and recommendations for future research (1 article) complete the remaining topics explored in these publications. (cdc.gov)
  • Our current research aims at exploring the constituents of the Milky Way, from an evolutionary, chemical, and dynamical point of view, and embedding our understanding of them in a cosmological context. (lu.se)
  • There is no doubt, that this topic of research is of great importance in the future protection of the oceans around us. (lu.se)
  • Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of recognizing that visions of the future no matter how optimistic-often express worries and fears about the social, technological and scientific development. (lu.se)
  • Not only does the inbuilt human capability to learn about language before birth underline the value and personhood of the unborn, it also renders the homage to evolutionary history completely useless. (creation.com)
  • What can early human society teach us about the future? (libcom.org)
  • It's like in those films: if you step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race. (singularityhub.com)
  • Evolutionary principles can also be used to understand and address aspects of human behavior that impede biomedical innovation and public health (e.g., vaccine hesitancy). (evmedreview.com)
  • Is there evidence that people have consumed this food for a sizable chunk of human history? (fathead-movie.com)
  • It will therefore reduce the gap in our knowledge of one of the most critical transitions in human evolutionary history. (lu.se)
  • Continuing, the study then focuses on the new transhumanists of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and investigates continuity in mode of thinking, contributing to a more coherent understanding of transhumanism, its history and of modern projects of human enhancement. (lu.se)
  • By explaining Huxley's role in the history of transhumanist thought and his influence on a new generation of futurists, the study contributes to a more coherent understanding of transhumanism, its history, and the trajectory between transhumanism and older projects of human enhancement. (lu.se)
  • The well-documented history of the past 20,000 years, spanning the last glacial-interglacial transition, is especially relevant for understanding the future of pines in the context of ongoing and future global climate change. (risingtidenorthamerica.org)
  • [ 10 ] From this point, the history of cleft repair is a well-documented stepwise series of surgical refinements. (medscape.com)
  • However, empirical studies that focus on the potential for interaction between animal pollination and hybridization to affect and contribute to evolutionary diversification are rare. (nature.com)
  • Kuhn argued there that if one studies the history of scientific revolutions, one finds that when the scientific evidence has begun to turn against a dominant scientific paradigm-when its days are numbered- its adherents do not simply concede defeat. (idthefuture.com)
  • He led studies unravelling and dating the evolutionary history of Wolbachia supergroups . (uni-goettingen.de)
  • Life history theory studies the allocation of finite energy in life and involves exchanges and decisions about how to invest energy to maximize fitness or suit- ability. (bvsalud.org)
  • In other stories, such as Back to the Future, even the tiniest of the time travelers' actions in the past produce major ripples that unpredictably change the future. (singularityhub.com)
  • The timeline of the evolutionary history of life represents the current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life on planet Earth. (wikipedia.org)
  • There is a proven relationship between adult attachment and parental style, yet the use of Life History Theory, in a "majority of the world" country, with advanced statistical analysis, can bring new results. (bvsalud.org)
  • Life History Theory can explain this result through the influence of maternal control on changes in female development, which are due to different parental investment, which influences sexual strategy. (bvsalud.org)
  • Theory of Life History. (bvsalud.org)
  • Evolutionary dynamics should also guide the development of novel therapeutic approaches that target the development of treatment resistance in cancers and antimicrobial resistance. (evmedreview.com)
  • Lund Observatory has a long history of famous astronomers working on understanding the dynamics and the constituents of the Milky Way. (lu.se)
  • This article by several leaders in the field provides an inspirational vision of contributions evolutionary medicine can make. (evmedreview.com)
  • If the change occurs constantly in the economy, then some kind of evolutionary process must be in act, and there has been a proposal that this process is Darwinian in nature. (detectivemarketing.com)
  • The rollercoaster of scientific and technological (sci-tech) change runs faster every year, spinning us irreversibly toward a very extraordinary future. (accelerating.org)
  • Most curiously, cultural change in developed societies the world over is in many ways 'saturating,' or heading for one common, stable type of future, while our technology continues to speed up and complexity all around us. (accelerating.org)
  • 27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent) Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%) Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan Life insurance Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK. (nature.com)
  • In his view, unpredictable events played a major role in natural history. (singularityhub.com)
  • Being out in the field with geologists like my colleague Professor Richard Twitchett (Natural History Museum, London) in Svalbard examining rock samples in the Arctic, was an experience I'll never forget,'' she said. (edu.au)
  • Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. (lu.se)
  • Apparently, or so Stanislas Dehaene claims, "the nascent brain already possesses considerable knowledge inherited from its long evolutionary history" (p. 53). (creation.com)
  • Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. (nature.com)
  • A crucial implication of these patterns is that broad geographic ranges and high abundances provide no guarantee of stability in range or abundance under altered climate regimes of the future. (risingtidenorthamerica.org)
  • We provide the first-ever study of the reported history and correlates of drug overdose among a broad sample of out-of-treatment people who inject drugs (PWID) in Lebanon. (who.int)
  • I assumed that given my family history of cancer and personal fondness for pepperoni pizza, I probably won't live long enough to find out. (time.com)
  • Long-form conversations about politics and current events, international affairs, history, art, books, and the natural world, to illuminate the issues faced by society and explore them in new ways. (rrr.org.au)
  • It is clear from history that the art of surgery evolves over time to encompass new technology as long as the outcomes are better for the patient. (medscape.com)
  • The study captures how scientific and technological development in relation to society and social order shapes images and expectations of the future and of what future is desirable. (lu.se)
  • I will present preliminary findings on the use of eschatology and history on the online imageboard 4chan. (lu.se)
  • The adaptive function of the variation of reproductive strategies is to optimize the current and the future tradeoff (Del Giudice et al. (bvsalud.org)
  • No one can predict what the most realistic future for Syria is. (lu.se)