• There are a number of most popular and accepted explanations: Co-Evolution of Genes with Culture Hypothesis. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the long run, it becomes the case that it is for the surviving genes to set conditions for the cultural practices to be used and even to create the environment to which the members adapt. (wikipedia.org)
  • In terms of behaviour, humans are unique in their capacity for learning and cultural changes but our behaviour is also influenced by our genes. (zmescience.com)
  • the vast majority of good genes you have are from your ancestors and most of your new genes or recombinations thereof are vastly likely to not improve your genetic makeup. (issarice.com)
  • The Tabima lab uses a multidisciplinary approach of integrating tools and concepts from evolutionary theory, computational biology, genomics, genetics, and plant pathology/mycology in order to study these phenomena, as well as to create computational and molecular tools for the rapid identification of species, populations, genes of interest and molecular patterns of fungal evolution. (clarku.edu)
  • Wilson, together with his graduate student Yasha Hartberg, argued that a sacred text can be thought of as a cultural genotype, because it "consists of many 'genes' in the form of stories, commandments, and other texts. (peterturchin.com)
  • This view also sounds reasonable, but can cultural 'genes' be both neural circuits in the brain and words inked on a parchment? (peterturchin.com)
  • In conclusion, the coexistence of multiple sex-determining genes in a natural population may be more prevalent than previously thought. (bvsalud.org)
  • It inhibits imitation and recombination, the basic blocks of cultural evolution and innovation. (preprints.org)
  • We found that these inter-class tournaments are feasible to implement in schools and that they are a promising mechanism to facilitate imitation, recombination, and innovation of teaching strategies. (preprints.org)
  • We want to understand the origins of innovation in cultural and technological evolution, with an emphasis in information networks, and how these cultural and tecnological innovations interact with natural ecosystems. (github.io)
  • To what extent is innovation the result of tinkering and recombination? (github.io)
  • How can OIE contribute to the speed and evolution of innovation and what are the requirements and constraints for that? (wikiversity.org)
  • Real World Labs can trigger innovation from global systems thinking to local activities that are supported in the lab [8] . (wikiversity.org)
  • build new things by recombining existing technology or new scientific results are one key element of innovation (similar principle can be found in genetic recombination ). (wikiversity.org)
  • The process that changes the frequency of application of cultural traits is influenced by the same forces that determine the remolding of the combination of genetic variants. (wikipedia.org)
  • The topics covered include the appearance of the first genetic material, the origins of cellular life, evolution and development, selection and adaptation, and genome evolution. (cshlpress.com)
  • This genetic structure promotes long-term evolution of new species by reducing intermixing with others. (zmescience.com)
  • Because both genetic and cultural information is transmitted across generations, this theory is also known as the 'dual inheritance theory. (peterturchin.com)
  • Classic theory predicts that sex chromosomes originate from a pair of homologous autosomes and recombination between them is suppressed via inversions to resolve sexual conflict. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Despite many convergent genomic patterns exhibited by independently evolved sex chromosome systems, and many case studies supporting these theoretical predictions, emerging data provide numerous interesting exceptions to these long-standing theories, and suggest that the remarkable diversity of sex chromosomes is matched by a similar diversity in their evolution. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Finally, the remarkable turnover of sex chromosomes in many systems, as well as variation in the rate of sex chromosome divergence, suggest that assumptions about the inevitable linearity of sex chromosome evolution are not always empirically supported, and the drivers of the birth-death cycle of sex chromosome evolution remain to be elucidated. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Here, we concentrate on how the diversity in sex chromosomes across taxa highlights an equal diversity in each stage of sex chromosome evolution. (uncommondescent.com)
  • The classical hypothesis proposes that the lack of recombination on sex chromosomes arises due to selection for linkage between a sex-determining locus and sexually antagonistic loci, primarily facilitated by inversions. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, cessation of recombination on sex chromosomes could be attributed also to neutral processes, connected with other chromosome rearrangements or can reflect sex-specific recombination patterns existing already before sex chromosome differentiation. (bvsalud.org)
  • We analyzed synaptonemal complexes and sequenced flow-sorted sex chromosomes to investigate the effect of chromosomal rearrangement on recombination and differentiation of these sex chromosomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • We showed that in male geckos, recombination is less prevalent in the proximal regions of chromosomes and is even further drastically reduced around the centromere of the neo-Y chromosome. (bvsalud.org)
  • We highlight that pre-existing recombination patterns and Robertsonian fusions can be responsible for the cessation of recombination on sex chromosomes and that such processes can be largely neutral. (bvsalud.org)
  • the resulting cultural patterns are observed and interpreted by others. (magrathea-tlc.nl)
  • Some of the patterns of gene sharing we see between the butterflies have also been documented in comparisons of the human and Neanderthal genomes, so there is another link to our own evolution," he concludes. (zmescience.com)
  • His lab is interested in identifying the patterns of genomic evolution of fungal species and populations, especially focused on the evolution, systematics, and genomics of secondary metabolism of the genus Basidiobolus . (clarku.edu)
  • link may pay Socio-cultural to life downloads which could surprise your participants, film E-mail of Rhetoric or Add other weekly reflectance. (musikkapelle-diecaller.de)
  • In Italy, several local breeds have won prestigious awards thanks to their unique traits and socio-cultural peculiarities. (bvsalud.org)
  • Also, both the cause and mechanism of recombination suppression between sex chromosome pairs remain unclear, and it may be that the spread of recombination suppression is a more gradual process than previously thought. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Evolution is all about change over time, but what is the mechanism that causes these changes? (yahoo.com)
  • Across generations, individuals populating a certain area learn to adopt and pass on to the next generations the cultural traits that promote survival and flourishing within the environment of their locality. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since cultural traits are transmitted in the context of interpersonal communication, the cultural variants its participants adopt are influenced by the behavioral choices the 'communicator' and the 'learner' make. (wikipedia.org)
  • Abstract Genomic analysis of many non-model species has uncovered an incredible diversity of sex chromosome systems, making it possible to empirically test the rich body of evolutionary theory that describes each stage of sex chromosome evolution. (uncommondescent.com)
  • Biology II covers diverse topics including evolution, systematic, diversity of life, plant form and function, animal form and function, and conservation biology. (uaeu.ac.ae)
  • This course aims at covering diverse topics including evolution, speciation, systematic, diversity of plants and animals, plant form and function, animal form and function, and conservation biology. (uaeu.ac.ae)
  • Professor Jiggins says that ultimately, this type of study suggests that humans are not as unique as we used to think. (zmescience.com)
  • So, it's not possible to beat humans at cultural evolution because. (issarice.com)
  • humans also have cultural evolution? (issarice.com)
  • An individual agent can't beat humans at cultural evolution, but multiple agents can. (issarice.com)
  • Boyd and Richerson argue that humans had culture before there were any technological means, such as memory chips of computers or written books, to store cultural information. (peterturchin.com)
  • This is particularly apparent in humans, and the suggestion that social and cultural cues may serve as an additional "inheritance system" has been made many times. (uva.nl)
  • Suddenly, capital rises to become the primary form of representation and expression for the global community, and its flair for flexibility and recombination would even be mistaken for a democratic, autonomous, or anti-authoritarian character, sealing it in as a new form of sublime non-governance. (e-flux.com)
  • Notwithstanding this limitation, the results are usually implicitly or explicitly generalized, which gives rise to the home-field disadvantage: when a particular cultural group is taken as a starting point, it becomes much harder for the researches to notice, or to 'mark', the peculiarities existing within the group. (wikipedia.org)
  • The cultural peculiarities of European scientific, industrial, and political revolutions seem only to deepen the problem. (e-flux.com)
  • Dr. Sergi Valverde is complex systems scientist and head of the Evolution of Networks group at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC) . (github.io)
  • We think there are important lessons about the information theoretical approach to biology (and evolution) to be learned from the complex networks approach to software. (github.io)
  • The distinction between the phenotype and the genotype has been enormously productive in evolutionary biology, so folks studying human cultural evolution have proposed that we need to find cultural analogs of the genotype and phenotype. (peterturchin.com)
  • Evolution education research, as with the teaching of evolution in general education, falls decidedly within the domain of biology education, rather than reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of evolution science in the 21st century. (prosocial.world)
  • Therefore, it follows, the job of the biology educator is, in essence, to help students understand that this vernacular usage is not 'real' evolution and instead only biological evolution counts as evolution (see e.g. (prosocial.world)
  • On the Origins of Species: Does Evolution Repeat Itself in Polyploid Populations of Independent Origin? (cshlpress.com)
  • The part of the genome that defines the sex of the butterflies is protected from the effects of inter-species mating, but more importantly, their genome is tweaked and shaped by natural selection and cultural preferences, which allow species to remain distinct and unique. (zmescience.com)
  • Technological evolution is a crucial component of culture and allows us expanding our capacities beyond any other species ever did and we have a quite good record of it. (github.io)
  • This is most striking when we compare our human cultures with those of arguably the second most cultural species, our closest living relative, the chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ) 11 . (nature.com)
  • Chimpanzees exhibit the greatest number of traditions outside of the human species, across foraging, tool use and social behaviours, with each chimpanzee group distinguished by their own particular cultural profile 11 . (nature.com)
  • Others, like David Sloan Wilson, proposed very different views of cultural genotypes. (peterturchin.com)
  • Yes, we need to know about various biases affecting learning and transmission of cultural information, but psychologists are doing a pretty good job investigating such mechanisms experimentally. (peterturchin.com)
  • We argue that the systematic exploration of learning as an evolutionary process, and evolution as a learning process holds untapped educational potential, a potential that is hampered by systemic conceptual biases among mainstream evolution educators. (prosocial.world)
  • A generation ago, with the advent of cybernetics, information science, and artificial intelligence, we began to think of the brain as a computer. (edge.org)
  • We illustrate this notion with an example of we called receptor-mediated evolution in Chapter 10 of our book The Mermaid's Tale . (blogspot.com)
  • atmospheric connection: Website 0 to 1: Chapter 4: evolution Guerrilla and C. Optional concept: marketing 0 to 1: Chapter 5: The design of a flow. (musikkapelle-diecaller.de)
  • The fourth one is for teaching natural and sexual selection along with developing statistical and population thinking. (preprints.org)
  • Natural selection is the engine that drives evolution . (yahoo.com)
  • Evolution is the result of the tendency for some organisms to have better reproductive success than others - natural selection. (yahoo.com)
  • Things got a bit more complicated in the modern time, as we assumed total control of our own factors of selection in evolution, with varied results. (amerika.org)
  • Inverto, we're talking about Darwinian evolution, not generic natural selection (variation within gene pools). (sciforums.com)
  • Natural selection was Darwin's chief contribution to the field of evolution in case you didn't know. (sciforums.com)
  • He didn't come up with evolution or even natural selection. (sciforums.com)
  • Part VIII: Complex evolution without selection? (blogspot.com)
  • But we have tried to suggest that there are many ways in which adaptive evolution can occur without that sort of selection. (blogspot.com)
  • We have to note this because as entrenched as deterministic selection is in the theory of evolution, the idea that evolution creeps along at usually a literally imperceptibly slow pace is equally entrenched. (blogspot.com)
  • We schematically illustrate the evolution of a complex trait without any natural selection. (blogspot.com)
  • Living beings have adapted to a constantly changing environment during evolution through mutation, recombination, and selection. (anthropolis.design)
  • We actually don't even know whether the observer/learner encodes the cultural information with precisely the same configuration of neural circuits (if that's how we store information in our brains) as the one in the brain of the person being imitated. (peterturchin.com)
  • Hillis's computers, which are fast enough to simulate the process of evolution itself, have shown that programs of random instructions can, by competing, produce new generations of programs - an approach that may well lead to the first machine that truly "thinks. (edge.org)
  • It's important to remember that differences between individuals, even individuals from different generations, don't constitute evolution. (yahoo.com)
  • In essence, evolution is a change in allele frequencies over the course of several generations. (yahoo.com)
  • I do think it initially looks like existing human culture subnetworks of malice being amplified by ai misuse, but we see that now. (greaterwrong.com)
  • So cultural genotype is the information stored in human brains. (peterturchin.com)
  • indeed, if we take the combined knowledge of history, credible science and philosophy, we will see that the races are each branches of the human tree with a different degree of evolution. (amerika.org)
  • Assuming the results hold up, what would they suggest about human evolution? (uncommondescent.com)
  • What all of these examples have in common is the invocation of a concept of evolution by well-educated educators and scientists, many of whom are charged with advancing the public understanding of evolution, without engaging students in explicit clarification about what this use of the concept actually means in the context of human cognition and culture. (prosocial.world)
  • And how can understanding our evolutionary history help to explain human cultural, cooperative achievements, whether technological or artistic, linguistic or moral? (thenewatlantis.com)
  • If staging mass ecological self-extinction is the ultimate spectacle, perhaps we should pause for a moment to see it not as human death but as a cultural endpoint. (e-flux.com)
  • At the same time, intelligent design (ID) offers a promising scientific alternative to materialistic theories of biological and cosmological evolution - an alternative that is finding increasing theoretical and empirical support. (uncommondescent.com)
  • So for this reason, if you turn to the literature on teaching evolution you will most often find guidance suggesting that the term evolution is used in popular discourse in ways that are different from the scientific (by which it is meant, biological) use of the concept. (prosocial.world)
  • Students do often hold a range of misconceptions in relation to the standard gene-centric model of biological evolution, and the popular use of 'evolution' is very often quite divorced from any scientific conceptualization of the term. (prosocial.world)
  • On this 60th anniversary of the discovery of the DNA double helix, Ball reviews a few of the recent findings that have rebuked the evolution narrative that random mutations created the biological world. (gawaher.com)
  • McCance then helpfully underscores the key line of thought in Derridian philosophy, the concept of heritance, and then links it to a provocative work of biological science- La logique du vivant - by Nobel Laureate biologist François Jacob, provocative because of its declaration of "biology's release from metaphysics and its coming of age as a science" (11). (ophen.org)
  • A theory of the cultural evolution of the firm is proposed. (magrathea-tlc.nl)
  • It is argued that a truly descriptive theory of the firm takes seriously the idea that firms are fundamentally cultural in nature and that culture evolves. (magrathea-tlc.nl)
  • I look at it this way, what has been called evidence by Darwinists, such as 'transitional fossils,' are not that, just wishful thinking, and Darwin said himself that 'in a hundred and fifty years, the paleontological record would prove or disprove the theory,' so a hundred and fifty years later, no supposed transition fossils to prop up this bizarre theory, that goo morphed into you. (sciforums.com)
  • Our distant ancestors are thought to have aggregated into small bands that were often kin-based, but present-day hunter-gatherer societies are known to have extensive interactions with nonrelatives, even in societies numbering only a few hundred individuals. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • But it shows, we think, that complexity can in principle arise slowly, element by element, without the need for competition for resources or overpopulation and so on. (blogspot.com)
  • Not surprisingly, ideas that gripped the new organization in the late 1990s have purchase today, but there are significant distinctions between those early years and now, allowing insight into the evolution of a vibrant, national organization that not only needs to keep current with the times, but whose mission is also to influence and help manage the often turbulent changes that confront us. (clir.org)
  • is the co-founder of the non-profit sustainability education organization GlobalESD.org, and a researcher / education outreach coordinator at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. (prosocial.world)
  • Software is the invisible, and yet the most important, technology for our society and we need quantitative, testable theories of software evolution and development. (github.io)
  • It reviews the latest advances in research into evolution, focusing on the molecular bases for evolutionary change. (cshlpress.com)
  • Philip Ball's opinion piece in this week's Nature, the most popular science magazine in the world, is news not because he stated that we don't fully understand how evolution works at the molecular level, but because he urged his fellow evolutionists to admit it. (gawaher.com)
  • Its intelligence is just as dependent on knowledge gained through trial and error and cultural evolution. (issarice.com)
  • Teilhard regarded knowledge of evolution, properly understood, as a metamorphosis of Christian thought. (thisviewoflife.com)
  • But I would argue that while it would certainly be interesting to know how brains work, this knowledge is rather academic for the scientific study of cultural evolution. (peterturchin.com)
  • Judgment requires contextual knowledge and recombinant thinking. (gumroad.com)
  • Rationalism is a philosophical belief that knowledge is primarily acquired through reason and logical thinking. (proprofs.com)
  • The results show that there are in fact cross-cultural differences in behavior in general and in decision-making strategies in particular and thus impel researches to explain their origin. (wikipedia.org)
  • A sacred text such as the Christian Bible is replicated with high fidelity and has a potent effect on behavior, which are two requirements of a cultural genotype. (peterturchin.com)
  • This tendency is further aggravated when the researcher belongs to the cultural group that they study. (wikipedia.org)
  • Leading evolution education researcher, Deborah Kelemen, runs the Evolving Minds project for teaching evolution in elementary school. (prosocial.world)
  • Evolutionary explanations for cooperation may at first seem paradoxical, since evolution is often conceived of in terms of competition between individuals and their struggle for survival and reproduction. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • We also look at whether it can be used to create enriching activities connected to children's real-life experiences, thus enhancing the integration of STEM and fostering Computational Thinking. (preprints.org)
  • In the future, we plan to extend this computational approach to model the evolution of large-scale ecosystems. (github.io)
  • One person who pioneered a narrative of conscious evolution was the French paleontologist and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955). (thisviewoflife.com)
  • To stay informed about the latest news and research in the sciences and Intelligent Design, visit Evolution News . (uncommondescent.com)
  • And of course there is the massive benefit that Darwinism ceded to the cultural sciences. (sciforums.com)
  • Building on a long lineage of thought from the social sciences, design anthropology can trace its roots back to the interdisciplinary field of material culture which brought together history, sociology, psychology, archaeology, and anthropology to understand the creation and consumption of objects, as well as the meaning ascribed to objects. (anthropolis.design)
  • The exploration of learning as an evolutionary process and evolution as a learning process holds untapped educational potential. (prosocial.world)
  • What if European exploration had been for cultural exchange and the study of sustainable practices of peoples which had gained an intimate understanding of their lands over millennia? (anthropolis.design)
  • We invite you to look at our weekly blog series, "Re: Thinking," which features perspectives from a variety of contributors on topics relating to the emerging digital environment, research, and higher education. (clir.org)
  • Educators across disciplines and around the world routinely describe the 'evolution' of their own and their students' understanding of concepts or issues. (prosocial.world)
  • Craighead does, in fact, describe the evolution of these images as different from his usual process. (wyofile.com)
  • This article explores the relationship between the scientific and vernacular use of the evolution concept as it relates to individual and social learning processes. (prosocial.world)
  • social, political, and cultural realities. (cdc.gov)
  • Like Robert Darnton in The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History , she is interested in finding small clues in the evidence of the archive that shed light on aspects of ordinary social interactions and meanings in eighteenth-century Paris. (blogspot.com)
  • Is history as relevant in understanding technological evolution? (github.io)
  • Dead ends of developments are not regarded as failure but instead the are treated and documented as lessons learned that contribute to the evolution of innovations [4] . (wikiversity.org)
  • He sees the autocatalytic effect of fast computers, which lets us design better and faster computers faster, as analogous to the evolution of intelligence. (edge.org)
  • Cultural groups all over the world have developed distinct unique worldviews reflected in their philosophies. (wikipedia.org)
  • I don't think a world that looks like the current one can be taken over inconspicuously by AI in seconds, and not weeks either, and not even less than a year. (issarice.com)
  • These are presented and acknowledged here in a technical context and then, towards the end of the paper, contrasted with a particularly striking and concrete example of economic evolution in the post-mining period - namely the development and conversion of the Zollverein complex. (mining-report.de)
  • The underlying cross-cultural differences in decision-making can be a great contributing factor to efficiency in cross-cultural communications, negotiations, and conflict resolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • re the thoughts of the shop Computing time server, and the differences of what is currently the largest message early types exposure in the article, with over 220 million rights and explaining. (musikkapelle-diecaller.de)
  • This latter characteristic is the reason why they are called Gods and Demons in the past and why they are understood in our 'scientific' age as the psychical manifestations of the instincts, in as much as they represent habitual and universally occurring attitudes and thought forms. (counter-currents.com)
  • Indeed, virtually all of the major transitions in evolution , for instance the development of the first cells, of eukaryotes, or of multicellular organisms, required the establishment of new forms of cooperation between hitherto independent elements. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Those emphasize the disruption of familiar items (outdoor photographs, wooden furniture) and the recombination of parts into irreverent new forms. (wyofile.com)
  • I still think you just have nothing to say after being presented with valid examples of what you asked for in the opening post. (sciforums.com)
  • Evolution leads to intelligence without explicit objectives. (gumroad.com)
  • I equate foom with the hard take-off scenario, for which I think I've stated why I think this is virtually impossible, in contrast to the slow take-off, which in spite of being slow is still very dangerous, as I described. (greaterwrong.com)
  • Hence, ID needs to be vigorously developed as a scientific, intellectual, and cultural project. (uncommondescent.com)
  • and two essays focused on aspects of digitization of cultural heritage, "Digitization Prompts New Preservation and Access Strategies," and "Digitization of Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet. (clir.org)
  • Two of the articles in the first edition of CLIR Issues focus on digitization of the cultural legacy: "Digitization Prompts New Preservation-and-Access Strategies," and extracts from the publication Digitizing Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet , by Stephen Ostrow. (clir.org)