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Showing posts with label evolvability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolvability. Show all posts
Monday, September 13, 2021

#65. Why There is Sex [evolution, genetics]

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EV   GE Red, theory ; black, fact The flower Coronilla varia L. Sex as an evolvability adaptation There are always two games in town: rep...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

# 54. Disaster Biology [evolution, evolutionary psychology]

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EP      EV   Red, theory; black, fact The habitat may have been a unit of selection in early hominins, leading to group selection, and mu...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

#46. Body-mod Bob's [evolution, evolutionary psychology]

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EP     EV Red, theory; black, fact Techno-evolution  Evolution may be operating in cooperation with a general capacity for technology. Nat...
Friday, June 1, 2018

#39. The 1950 Ramp [population, evolutionary psychology, engineering, neuroscience]

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PO     EN     EP     NE Red, theory ; black, fact A schematic of a simple rate-of-increase controller mechanism Historical  Since about...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

#38. Can Irreducible Complexity Evolve? [genetics, evolution]

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EV     GE Red, theory ; black, fact 2 x 2 The Key Insight Sexual reproduction may allow the evolution of irreducible complexity by inc...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

#33. Emotions [evolutionary psychology, genetics, neuroscience]

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EP     NE     GE Red, theory ; black, fact A Genetics Theory  All sexually reproducing species may have a long-range guidance system tha...
Monday, April 3, 2017

#26. Why Organized Religion? Theory Two [evolutionary psychology]

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EP Red, theory ; black, fact Emotions are an "endophenotype," a term from functional magnetic resonance imaging, that provid...
Monday, February 6, 2017

#22. Proxy Natural Selection: The God-shaped Gap at the Heart of Biology [genetics, evolution]

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EV     GE Red, theory ; black, fact The Problem and My Solution  S ome entity must be responsible for compensating for the fact that ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

#16. The Intermind, Engine of History? [evolutionary psychology]

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EP Red, theory ; black, fact Statue of Samuel de Champlain, explorer A Mechanism of Rapid Evolution   A plausible reason for having a...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

#1. The Origin of the Eukaryotes [evolution]

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EV Red, theory; black, fact A fossil (oncoid or stromatolite) of a colony of prokaryotes. Photographed in situ. The eukaryotic cell m...