• 1 Kojonen argues that mainstream evolutionary theory is compatible with biology-based evidence of design. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Our Biology (SEEd) curriculum and test review is aligned to the most current standards. (usatestprep.com)
  • In the evolution of whale diving, there's been a long-standing question of when deep-sea foraging evolved," says Belinda Chang , a professor in the Faculty of Arts & Science's departments of ecology and evolutionary biology, and cell and systems biology. (utoronto.ca)
  • The fossil record is the gold standard for understanding evolutionary biology," says Dungan. (utoronto.ca)
  • My motivation here is not to dispute the findings of evolutionary biology but to point out Dawkins' hypocrisy. (crisismagazine.com)
  • Led by sociologist and evolution proponent Raymond A. Eve of the University of Texas at Arlington, the 59-question survey was sent to 1,019 biology and biological anthropology faculty members of public universities and large private institutions in Texas. (icr.org)
  • Another statement read, "It is possible for someone who accepts evolutionary biology to have religious faith. (icr.org)
  • The standards for grades 9-12 require students learn that, "Evolution is the fundamental concept underlying all of biology and is supported by multiple forms of scientific evidence. (floridabaptistwitness.com)
  • One "benchmark" for those grades stipulates that students, "Explain how evolution is demonstrated by the fossil record, extinction, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, biogeography, molecular biology (crosscuts with earth/space), and observed evolutionary change. (floridabaptistwitness.com)
  • The origin of life is the most difficult problem that faces evolutionary biology and, arguably, biology in general. (creation.com)
  • Our NC Biology EOC practice and test review is aligned to the most current North Carolina standards. (usatestprep.com)
  • The interdisciplinary science that studies evolutionary biology, including the origin and evolution of the major elements required for life, their processing in the interstellar medium and in protostellar systems. (bvsalud.org)
  • This field also includes the study of chemical evolution and the subsequent interactions between evolving biota and planetary evolution as well as the field of biology that deals with the study of extraterrestrial life. (bvsalud.org)
  • The aim of this review is to provide scientific information for better understanding of the evolutionary biology, molecular epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and prevention of Lassa fever in Nigeria and other endemic regions worldwide, which can lead to improved control efforts and reduce morbidity and mortality from recurrent epidemics. (bvsalud.org)
  • Thus, the eye of an eagle, for example, is fully accounted for by evolutionary processes and also counts as strong evidence of design - all without the intervention or superintendence of God per se. (evolutionnews.org)
  • In The Compatibility of Evolution and Design , theologian E. V. Rope Kojonen constructs a powerful argument that not only are evolution and design compatible, but that evolutionary processes (and biological data) strongly point to design. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Spatial processes such as dispersal, gene flow and geographical range changes can produce patterns of trait evolution that do not fit the expectations of standard models, even when evolution at the local‐population level is governed by drift or a typical OU model of selection. (palass.org)
  • Range expansions and contractions introduce rate variability into drift processes, range expansion under a drift model can drive directional change in trait evolution, and spatial selection gradients can create spatial variation in traits that can produce long‐term directional trends and punctuation events depending on the balance between selection strength, gene flow, extirpation probability and model of speciation. (palass.org)
  • Using computational modelling that spatial processes can create evolutionary outcomes that depart from basic population‐level notions from these standard macroevolutionary models. (palass.org)
  • Spatial variation interacts with evolutionary processes in ways that produce patterns of trait change that differ markedly from the expectations of standard statistical evolutionary models like Brownian motion, directional selection and adaptive peak (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck) models. (palass.org)
  • In this paper, I critically review the ways in which spatial processes cause departures from these standard evolutionary models. (palass.org)
  • Over the last 20 years, Bayesian methods have reshaped phylogenetic inference and gained widespread popularity due to their high accuracy, the ability to quantify the uncertainty of inferences and the possibility of accommodating multiple aspects of evolutionary processes in the models that are. (researchgate.net)
  • Clearly the concepts of intricate genome rearrangements on a massive scale combined with complex encryption systems do not bode well for something allegedly derived by the random chance processes of evolution. (icr.org)
  • As such, they are important laboratories for fundamental studies of stellar evolutionary processes, the evolution and history of the Milky Way Galaxy, the evolution of planetary systems, and the behavior of matter at extreme temperatures and densities. (iau.org)
  • Inspired by the work of evo-devo biologists, evo-devo complexity theorists look for processes of evolutionary creativity and developmental constraint in any autopoetic complex systems, at any scale. (evodevouniverse.com)
  • Human evolutionary exceptionalism, however-the tendency to assume that biologically exceptional human traits come into the world through exceptional processes of biological evolution-is a bad habit we need to break. (edge.org)
  • Some readers might think that I am holding evolutionary psychology to a much higher epistemic standard than is normal in evolutionary biological sciences. (uncommondescent.com)
  • When making evolutionary inferences about paradigmatically biological traits, biologists use experimental manipulations, comparative methods, the fossil record, and optimality models to determine that selection has taken place and that the items under consideration have retained their selected-for functions. (uncommondescent.com)
  • The truth is that there are many scientists, even biologists, who deny that evolution is a fact but are light years ahead of Dawkins in terms of research and peer reviewed publications. (crisismagazine.com)
  • In regard to significance, what is the difference between the 91 percent of evolutionary biologists who answered "yes" to this statement and intelligent design advocates, who also agree that evolution is compatible with religious faith, or creationists, who say evolution is a religious faith? (icr.org)
  • Please cite this paper as: Smart J.M. (2019) Evolutionary Development: A Universal Perspective. (evodevouniverse.com)
  • Statistical model fitting is now commonly used to estimate which kind of evolutionary process best explains patterns of change through time using models like Brownian motion, stabilizing selection (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck) and directional selection on traits measured from stratigraphic sequences or on phylogenetic trees. (palass.org)
  • Through this multi-level evolution, family traits and preferences diversify to form clusters that possess the properties of clans. (datadryad.org)
  • It is therefore regrettable that the concept's originators made category mistakes by characterizing two distinctly human traits as outcomes of major evolutionary transitions. (edge.org)
  • Previously, we argued that the precuneus expanded in recent human evolution, based on a combination of paleontological, comparative, and intraspecific evidence from fossil and modern human endocasts as well as from human and chimpanzee brains. (karger.com)
  • This chapter presents a comparative evolutionary approach to answering this question. (hw.ac.uk)
  • Comparative geographic distribution analysis evolutionary events ( 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Flavivirus and Filovirus EvoPrinters: New alignment tools for the comparative analysis of viral evolution. (cdc.gov)
  • EvoRator: prediction of residue-level evolutionary rates from protein structures using machine learning. (tau.ac.il)
  • Contrary to the evolutionary prediction of simple-to-complex in the alleged tree of life, one-cell ciliates are exhibiting astonishing genetic complexity. (icr.org)
  • We compare this novel kernel to a standard, evolution-agnostic amino acid encoding in the prediction of HIV drug resistance from genotype, using support vector regression. (mpg.de)
  • In Genetic and evolutionary computation - Medical applications (pp. 191-205). (royalholloway.ac.uk)
  • This paper presents experiments of Nearest Neighbor (NN) classifier design using different evolutionary computation methods. (ulaval.ca)
  • The evolutionary dynamics that retain long neutral genomic sequences in face of indel deletion bias: a model and its application to human introns. (tau.ac.il)
  • Typical evolutionary models used in palaeontology incorporate the temporal component of these dynamics, but not the spatial. (palass.org)
  • By viewing this capacity as a trait, evolvability is subject to natural selection and thus plays a critical role in eco-evolutionary dynamics. (lu.se)
  • We analyze population and strategy (= heritable phenotype) dynamics of the two populations under clade initiation (when species are introduced into a population), evolutionary tracking (constant, small changes in the environment), adaptive radiation (availability of multiple ecological niches), and evolutionary rescue (extreme environmental disturbances). (lu.se)
  • Finally, disrupting the environment at intermediate frequencies can result in coexistence with cyclical population dynamics of species with different rates of evolution. (lu.se)
  • Although the origin and evolutionary history, and the transmission dynamics of Lassa virus have been revealed through recent. (bvsalud.org)
  • Machine-learning of complex evolutionary signals improves classification of SNVs. (tau.ac.il)
  • Ongoing research into the genetic and ecological factors that drive the evolution of Lassa virus is necessary to reduce the impacts of Lassa fever. (bvsalud.org)
  • The idea of co-evolution, which takes into account the intricate patterns of interaction among these and other factors, takes center stage in this review of explanations of the origins and evolution of language. (hw.ac.uk)
  • Most recently, conservatives in the board's six-person majority approved science standards that recommend that students learn about "scientific criticisms" of the theory of evolution and what the document terms "the lack of adequate natural explanations" for certain aspects of evolutionary theory. (edweek.org)
  • Deep diving by marine mammals is one of the great evolutionary transitions, along with powered flight and living on land, and reveals much about how quickly life can adapt in a changing world. (utoronto.ca)
  • The major evolutionary transitions concept, when properly applied, is useful and clarifying. (edge.org)
  • [ 5 ] Evolutionary psychology supports the hypothesis that knowledge acquisition and the adaptive regulation of behavior is a dynamic and progressive process. (medscape.com)
  • Many standard elements of the adaptive immune system also have been described in bats. (cdc.gov)
  • How people interpret and understand evolutionary trees is a complex interaction between their prior knowledge and understanding of underlying evolutionary ideas such as similarity, ancestry, and relatedness, and their ability to read the relationships depicted in a schematic tree diagram. (springer.com)
  • Specifically, the kernel quantifies the similarity of evolutionary escape from antiviral drug pressure between two viral sequence samples. (mpg.de)
  • Evolutionary psychologists are impeded by the fact that these methods are unavailable to them. (uncommondescent.com)
  • The proposed approach is compared with the standard NN classifier, with and without the use of classic prototype selection methods, and classic data normalization. (ulaval.ca)
  • The result of this renewal is this fourth edition, now under a new title, the CDC Field Epidemiology Manual , to reflect the evolution in scope, methods, venues, and other aspects of the application of field epidemiology. (cdc.gov)
  • Meanwhile, this edition has augmented the core elements by incorporating a broad set of innovations, including design changes that impart portability, increased utilities, and enhanced readability, and an expansion in scope that accommodates major evolutionary changes in methods for epidemiologic field investigations that have emerged since the last edition's publication in 2008. (cdc.gov)
  • In order to find a suitable trade-off between these objectives, evolutionary multi-objective algorithms identifying Pareto optimal solutions are exploited. (tuhh.de)
  • The thirs version of the Generalized Differential Evolution (GDE3) is currently one of the most suitable multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. (tuhh.de)
  • Through multi-objective and co-evolution techniques, it combines genetic algorithms and genetic programming to both select NN prototypes and design a neighborhood proximity measure, in order to produce a more efficient and robust classifier. (ulaval.ca)
  • For years, Niche Construction theorists have argued that standard evolutionary theory cannot account for such interactions between humans' culturally mediated environmental effects and natural selection. (edge.org)
  • I have shown that there are obstacles to demonstrating that present-day behaviors are outputs of the kinds of evolved psychological structures proposed by evolutionary psychology. (uncommondescent.com)
  • She's basically destroying the entire Darwinian inference but trying to limit the critique to just evolutionary psychology. (uncommondescent.com)
  • This innate ability or desire in our minds to progress is being described as a new framework called evolutionary psychology. (medscape.com)
  • Evolutionary psychological inferences commonly fail to satisfy reasonable epistemic criteria. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Furthermore, evolutionary psychological hypotheses turn on inferences about hypothetical structures for which there is a dearth of empirical support, and there is no evidence that the minds of our prehistoric ancestors possessed this sort of architecture. (uncommondescent.com)
  • A British psychological study published in Evolution and Human Behavior in 2010 concluded that heterosexual men and women, in general, continued to follow traditional gender roles when searching for mates. (wikipedia.org)
  • Third, Kojonen regards convergent evolution as notable positive evidence in favor of his model (including his version of design), yet convergent evolution actually harms the justification of common ancestry, which Kojonen also accepts. (evolutionnews.org)
  • This standard represents a major evolutionary milestone with 4x faster data rates and twice the bandwidth. (ieee.org)
  • In recent days the issue of the want of rational coherence of evolutionary materialist scientism has become a major focus at UD. (uncommondescent.com)
  • In this course, educators will examine major evolutionary concepts, misconceptions about evolution, and how to address obstacles to teaching evolution. (blankparkzoo.com)
  • Their second category mistake was to hold up human language as the outcome of major evolutionary transition. (edge.org)
  • Control of the state school board has changed twice during the past several election cycles, shifting between members deemed conservative and those seen as moderates, with the teaching of evolution being the major subject of disagreement. (edweek.org)
  • Evolution is a fundamentally population level process in which variation, drift and selection produce both temporal and spatial patterns of change. (palass.org)
  • Ever since Darwin ( 1859 ), variation has been understood to be a central component of evolution. (palass.org)
  • Humans' niche construction activities have undoubtedly exposed new covariances between genetic variation and fitness during human evolution, but those activities have neither created that variation nor filtered it, so they don't constitute an evolutionary process. (edge.org)
  • Finally, statistical analysis based on the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, a global ethnographic database, empirically verify theoretical results. (datadryad.org)
  • Amid all the celebration last year over the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of his most famous book, On the Origin of Species , 1 I heard little or no mention of how often attempts to explain life's history from an evolutionary perspective have provided stunning new evidence for creation. (reasons.org)
  • He takes evolutionary theory as a given and argues that, even so, biological phenomena still provide notable evidence of design. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Is Design Compatible with Evolutionary Theory? (evolutionnews.org)
  • A perennial question in discussions about biological origins is whether or not intelligent design is compatible with evolutionary theory. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Second, Kojonen appeals to the bacterial flagellum to strengthen his case for design, yet the type of design in the flagellum is incompatible with mainstream evolutionary theory, which (again) damages his reconciliation of design with evolution. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Throughout the book, Kojonen offers nuanced arguments, appropriate qualifications, and respectful engagement with both mainstream evolutionary theory and contemporary notions of design. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Evolutionary theory, properly understood, is both scientifically correct and compatible with a certain type of biological design argument. (evolutionnews.org)
  • The biological world itself provides notable grounds for belief in a purposeful Creator, and evolutionary theory does not defeat these grounds. (evolutionnews.org)
  • According to Orr, neither the logical point nor the empirical point nor a conflation of the two poses a challenge to evolutionary theory. (arn.org)
  • The fatwa issued by the AHA, which generously includes 'critical thinking' in a list of its own Ten Commitments, accused the evolutionary biologist of 'demean[ing] marginalized groups' when he asked his Twitter followers to 'discuss' the vilification of critics of transgender theory. (spectator.co.uk)
  • For example, the fourth main section of the book, "Biological Information and Self-Organizational Complexity Theory," contains contributions by scientists who are critical of Darwinism but believe the solution to the problem of origins is a materialistic form of evolution along the lines of self-organization. (evolutionnews.org)
  • In an effort to influence the Texas State Board of Education to ban the teaching of the weaknesses apparent in evolutionary theory, the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) Education Fund sponsored and released a survey in 2008 titled "Evolution, Creationism & Public Schools: Surveying What Texas Scientists Think about Educating Our Kids in the 21st Century. (icr.org)
  • Tree of life diagrams are graphic representations of phylogeny-the evolutionary history and relationships of lineages-and as such these graphics have the potential to convey key evolutionary ideas and principles to a variety of audiences. (springer.com)
  • But in the evolutionary worldview, the sensory organs and the brain are just chemical accidents that happened to convey survival value. (answersingenesis.org)
  • University of Toronto researchers have shed light on the evolutionary transition of whales' early ancestors from on-shore living to deep-sea foraging, suggesting that these ancestors had visual systems that could quickly adapt to the dark. (utoronto.ca)
  • A binary generalized differential evolution algorithm (BGDE) is inspired by the novel modified binary differential evolution algorithm (NMBDE) for single-objective optimization problems and GDE3. (tuhh.de)
  • Ecology and Evolution , 13 (10), Article e10591. (lu.se)
  • Some of these Pokémon may get future evolutions or pre-evolutions in later generations . (bulbagarden.net)
  • However, although it is crucial to identify the progenitor systems, the evolutionary paths leading to these explosions are still poorly understood. (iau.org)
  • To examine the genetic diversity, the and outbreak legionellosis (91.5%), and serogroup 1 is the long-term epidemiology, and the molecular evolution of Lp1 predominant serotype (84.2%) ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Genotype diversity and molecular evolution of noroviruses: A 30-year (1982-2011) comprehensive study with children from Northern Brazil. (cdc.gov)
  • The idea of a "tree of life" represents a core concept of evolutionary science-phylogeny-and is depicted graphically using an almost bewildering array of formats and terminology, in which even a particular geometry used can have multiple names associated with it. (springer.com)
  • Evolutionary trees of life are branching diagrams that depict hypothesized relationships-the historical pattern of divergence and descent between taxa-as a series of branches that merge at internal branches representing common ancestry, which in turn are connected with more distant relatives. (springer.com)
  • If he wishes to make a purely empirical point, then he wastes his time to bring in the notion of irreducible complexity when what he really means is simply that the evolutionary pathways of certain biological objects have yet to be adequately explained. (arn.org)
  • As for the logical point, irreducible complexity clearly cannot close off all possible avenues of Darwinian evolution. (arn.org)
  • Organisms are classified based on their evolutionary history. (floridabaptistwitness.com)
  • 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)
  • Then, the model's evolutionary stability strategies via solving the replication dynamic equations are analyzed. (hindawi.com)
  • Type Ia supernovae are the standard candles indicating the acceleration of cosmic expansion. (iau.org)
  • An [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334005041_Evolutionary_Development_A_Universal_Perspective '''open archive PDF'''] is available here. (evodevouniverse.com)
  • The Component Model of Parenting (CMP), from an evolutionary perspective, proposes a phylogenetically evolved repertoire of six systems (body contact, body stimulation, face-to-face exchange, object stimulation, and primary care) and two parenting styles (distal and proximal) by combining some of these systems. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the past few years, white dwarfs have also begun influence our understanding of the evolution of planetary systems. (iau.org)
  • This page offers a general systems definition of the phrase "evolutionary development", and an introduction to its application to autopoetic (self-reproducing) complex systems, including the universe as a system. (evodevouniverse.com)
  • We hypothesize that the increased metabolism and higher body temperatures of bats during flight might serve as an evolutionary adjuvant to their immune systems, providing a powerful selective force against virulence and promoting the diversity of viruses that infect bat populations. (cdc.gov)
  • The rapid appearance of all these phototrophs then somehow stimulated the equally rapid evolution of the few tiny-bodied animal species that managed to survive the mass extinction event, perhaps through deep hibernation, into a panoply of creatures-all kinds and sizes. (reasons.org)
  • Mega Evolutions are not evolutions, but instead more powerful forms of the same species. (bulbagarden.net)
  • It reveals how the social and cognitive abilities present not only in apes and in extinct hominin species, but also in distantly related animals can help us understand language origin and language evolution. (hw.ac.uk)
  • We find that when species are far from an eco-evolutionary equilibrium, faster-evolving species reach higher population sizes, and when species are close to an equilibrium, slower-evolving species are more successful. (lu.se)
  • Belinda Chang (back left) leads a lab that focuses on the evolutionary transition of animals' vision. (utoronto.ca)
  • TAMPA (FBW)-From activist moms in St. Augustine, to a member of the State Board of Education in Tallahassee, to a church leader in Brandon, Florida Baptists have taken the lead in opposing proposed science standards that require evolution-only teaching in the Sunshine State's public schools. (floridabaptistwitness.com)
  • Moderates oppose such language in the science standards and other positions such as the board's recent adoption of an "opt in" policy recommendation on sex education in the state's health education standards. (edweek.org)
  • To stay informed about the latest news and research in the sciences and Intelligent Design, visit Evolution News . (uncommondescent.com)
  • One of the most interesting features of the research paper was the overall lack of evolutionary verbiage it contained. (icr.org)
  • I agree completely that evolution should be taught with all of the research and study that has occurred. (floridabaptistwitness.com)
  • One of the most intriguing aspects of this iconic land-to-sea evolutionary transition is that the qualities of the visual environment completely changed," says Chang. (utoronto.ca)
  • How phylogenies are depicted and used in informal science settings impacts their accessibility and effectiveness in communicating about evolution to visitors. (springer.com)
  • A longstanding question in science and religion is whether standard evolutionary models are compatible with the claim that the world was designed. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Whereas the survey did contain responses to identify training or experience teaching evolution, the survey contained no verification that respondents had any training in intelligent design or creation science. (icr.org)
  • In October, a 45-member committee appointed by the Florida Department of Education released proposed new standards for teaching science (and other subjects), requiring evolution and diversity knowledge as one of the "big ideas" for elementary students and "bodies of knowledge" for high school students. (floridabaptistwitness.com)
  • According to statistics provided to Florida Baptist Witness by Tom Butler, press secretary for the Department of Education, 6,498 educators and 2,924 others offered 17,696 comments and 234,677 ratings of the new science standards. (floridabaptistwitness.com)
  • Evolution is the foundation for modern biological understanding and has a prominent place in Iowa's Core for science and the Next Generation Science Standards. (blankparkzoo.com)
  • The result has been three rewrites of state science standards in that time. (edweek.org)
  • Martin, Ben R. "The evolution of science policy and innovation studies. (lu.se)
  • Additional modules that have been added during the evolution of particular lineages are not considered in detail here. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Article 6 TEU requires the EU, an institution which has been in a constant state of evolution for over six decades, to accede to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("ECHR"), a creature of the Council of Europe ("CoE") which, along with its legal system, has traveled its own evolutionary path over the same period. (lu.se)
  • In fact, a recent study found that even a single visit to an evolution exhibit can influence children's thinking about evolutionary concepts (Diamond et al. (springer.com)
  • Hey evolutionary psychologists: What is the evolutive explanation for 'me' (yes, I do exist) feeling amazement each time I study the incredible, amazing, marvelous, mind-blowing intrincacies of even the smallest cell? (uncommondescent.com)
  • In a peer-reviewed paper, she has basically blown away an entire field of evolutionary study. (uncommondescent.com)
  • As part of the filament study carried out by the Herschel Galactic Cold Cores Key Programme, here we study and discuss the filament properties presented in GCC VII (Paper I) in context with theoretical models of filament formation and evolution. (aanda.org)
  • Culturally mediated human niche construction is real, important, sometimes evolutionarily significant, and certainly worthy of study, but it doesn't compel a revision to our understanding of how evolution works. (edge.org)
  • Focusing first on uncovering how and why Huxley's transhumanism came to be-by placing it within the context of his scientific and sociopolitical milieu-and then on tracing the intellectual roots and origins of the new transhumanists of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, the study investigates continuities and discontinuities in mode of thinking, with specific regard to ideas of control, conscious evolution, and the posthuman. (lu.se)
  • molecular epidemiological studies, the factors that drive the evolution of the virus remain unclear. (bvsalud.org)