Charles Darwin’s theory on evolution by natural selection presents the varied links connecting biological facts, and demonstrates the results of these connections, but the theory is a generally misunderstood one in some circles, and in particular amongst fundamentalist believers in the creation story...
#charlesdarwin #EvolutionaryTheory #naturalselection #opinions #creationists #nature #speciesdiversity #writingcommunity #evolution #originofspecies
https://write.as/for-much-deliberation/on-darwin-and-a-theory
#EvolutionaryTheory
Yesterday, Blogorgonopsid celebrated the 165th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's most important book, On the Origin of Species!
Včera Blogorgonopsid oslavil 165. výročí publikace nejvýznamnější knihy Charlese Darwina, O původu druhů!
#charlesdarwin #originofspecies #evolution #biology #darwin #darwinism #evolutionarytheory #science #books
https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2024/11/darwinovo-veledilo-o-puvodu-druhu-vyslo.html
From black hole physics to theoretical behavioural ecology. John M McNamara giving an inaugural lecture in Budapest, Hungary: "The art of the state, modelling the endpoints of evolution by natural selection". (Don't miss the famous photos of Alasdair Houston and John from the 70s)
#Science #Biology #Ecology #Evolution #EvolutionaryTheory #EvolutionaryBiology #AnimalBehaviour #Behaviour #BehaviouralEcology #bird #ParentalCare #GameTheory #Lecture #Bristol
"Information that propagates is life and that reserving the quality of life for a subset of information embedded in physical forms with certain arbitrary, anthropogenically-defined attributes is inconsistent".
So memes are life?
Are scientists making any use of these "theories of everything"?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264721001544?via%3Dihub
For all the #EvolutionaryTheory and #TheoreticalEcology folks who don't have fancy study species to share photos of, we unveil the #Theory #Moose.
Yup, fully lovin' this essay on #socialmedia verification through the lens of #anthropology & #evolutionarytheory
https://www.sapiens.org/biology/twitter-blue-tick-signaling/
That little #BlueTick ain't all its cracked up to be anymore...
(Was it ever, #SocialMedia pals?)
Do we need a New Theory of #Evolution?
(The Guardian)
Strange as it sounds, scientists still do not know the answers to some of the most basic questions about how life on Earth evolved. Take eyes, for instance. Where do they come from, exactly? The usual explanation of how we got these stupendously complex organs rests upon the theory of natural selection.
A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream #EvolutionaryTheory needs an urgent overhaul.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/28/do-we-need-a-new-theory-of-evolution
Religion is not the factor that most influences rejection of evolutionary theory in schools, study says
When the researchers analyzed the results, they concluded that nationality was more relevant than religion to acceptance of theories on common ancestry and natural selection....
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-religion-factor-evolutionary-theory-schools.html
"Beyond genotype-phenotype maps: Toward a phenotype-centered perspective on evolution"
#conceptualframework #development #evolutionarytheory, #evolvability #genotypephenotypemap #maternaleffects
#phenotypicplasticity
Evolutionary biology is paying increasing attention to the mechanisms that enable phenotypic plasticity, evolvability, and extra-genetic inheritance
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.202100225?campaign=woletoc
The rejection of #evolutionarytheory has moral implications in relation to our response to #climatechange. When persons refuse to understand how #evolution works, they fail to comprehend the profound impact of warmer average temperatures on #ecosystems that have evolved over time to flourish in a relatively stable #climate. With climate changing as rapidly as it is now, it will be extremely difficult for many forms of life to make the evolutionary adjustments to survive, much less thrive.
Useful piece here on the recent controversies in #evolutionarytheory between Modern synthesis and Extended evolutionary synthesis. From Erik Svensson
The main problem with Cross-Cultural Piagetian Studies, according to the recent discussion between Hallpike and Dasen is the lack of evolutionary theroy. That is why, Günter Dux's theory is called Historico-genetic theory, becouse use the genetic strategy of the reconstruction, but facing both the phylogenetic and the historical importance of the human life.
#sociology #piaget #psychology #anthropology #evolutionarytheory #GünterDux #PierreDasen #Hallpike
#Conference — only two weeks to go until our #MicrobiologySociety Focus Meeting about #MicrobialEvolution in #Manchester UK 22-23 November
#ExperimentalEvolution #PathogenGenomics #Microbiome #dynamics #Mathematical #modelling #crispr #plasmids #phages #GeneRegulatoryNetworks #PredictingEvolution #EvolutionaryApplications #MutationRates #HorizontalGeneTransfer #EvolutionaryTheory #EvolutionaryInnovation #EvolutionaryRescue #EcoEvolutionaryDynamics
REVIEW> Godart on Mackenzie, 'Asian Religious Responses to Darwinism: Evolutionary Theories in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian Cultural Contexts' https://networks.h-net.org/node/6060/reviews/7950867/godart-mackenzie-asian-religious-responses-darwinism-evolutionary #BuddhistStudies #evolutionarytheory
#EricWeinstein on how to learn what's necessary to think from first principles:
1. #EvolutionaryTheory (eg “The Selfish Gene”, “The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution”).
2. #Economics (“markets are the continuation of natural and sexual selection by other means”).
3. Offbeat #history (regular history, Howard Zinn's version, conservative versions, etc).
4. #Psychology (the most durable parts).
Then: #mathematics, #physics, #chemistry, #programming…
https://jamesaltucher.com/podcast/472-eric-weinstein/
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