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The Early History of Chance in Evolution
chance Charles Darwin evolution Francis Galton inheritance Karl Pearson natural selection statistics W.F.R. Weldon
2016/6/15
Work throughout the history and philosophy of biology frequently employs 'chance', 'unpredictability', 'probability', and many similar terms. One common way of understanding how these concepts were in...
On the possibility of nonlinear quantum evolution and superluminal communication
nonlinear quantum evolution wavefunction collapse consciousness superluminal communication special relativity
2016/6/13
A possible mechanism of nonlinear quantum evolution is introduced and its implications for quantum communication are investigated. First, it is demonstrated that an appropriate combination of wavefunc...
On the Debate Concerning the Proper Characterisation of Quantum Dynamical Evolution
open quantum systems quantum dynamics dynamical maps assignment maps not completely positive maps
2016/6/12
There has been a long-standing and sometimes passionate debate between physicists over whether a dynamical framework for quantum systems should incorporate not completely positive (NCP) maps in additi...
Ambivalence and Conflict:Catholic Church and Evolution
Catholic Church evolution naturalism new atheism
2016/5/31
Somewhat traumatized by the Galileo Affair the Church until recently showed low profile in the (unavoidable) conflicts with science, evolutionary theory included. The talk presents a categorization of...
The Evolution of Darwin's Evolutionary Thinking
Darwin Lyell natural selection origin of morality geology
2009/6/18
(1) Darwin inherited Lyell’s methodology and applied it to the animate beings. This led him, eventually, to the principle of natural selection. This principle enabled him to expel God from biology.(2)...
How Not to Argue for the Indeterminism of Evolution: A Look at Two Recent Attempts to Settle the Issue
determinism indeterminism Stamos Glymour evolution
2008/4/22
I examine recent debates in the philosophy of biology over the determinism or indeterminism of the evolutionary process, focusing on two papers in particular: Glymour 2001 and Stamos 2001. I argue tha...
Prospects for a dual inheritance model of emotional evolution
emotion evolution dual inheritance evolutionary psychology
2008/4/22
Dual inheritance (DI) models of cultural evolution have been criticized for likening cultural transmission to genetic (lateral) transmission. I argue that although these objections might pertain to th...
The Developmental Systems Perspective: Organism-environment systems as units of development and evolution
evolution Perspective
2008/4/21
Developmental systems theory is an attempt to sum up the ideas of a research tradition in developmental psychobiology that goes back at least to Daniel Lehrman’s work in the 1950s. It yields a represe...
Observations on Hyperplanes: I State Reduction and Unitary Evolution
state reduction unitary evolution hyperplane dependence
2008/4/15
This is the first of two papers responding (somewhat belatedly) to ‘recent’ commentary on various aspects of hyperplane dependence (HD) by several authors. In this paper I focus on the issues of the r...
Multi-Level Selection and the Major Transitions in Evolution
levels of selection units of selection major transitions
2008/4/15
A number of recent biologists have used multi-level selection theory to help explain the major transitions in evolution. I argue that in doing so, they have shifted from a ‘synchronic’ to a ‘diachroni...
Quartz (2002) argues that some recent findings about the evolution of the brain (Finlay & Darlington, 1995) are inconsistent with evolutionary psychologists’ massive modularity hypothesis. In substanc...
Evolutionary processes such as natural selection and random drift are
commonly regarded as causes of population-level change. We respond to a
recent challenge that drift and selection are best und...
Machery, E., 2006, Review of A. Zilhao, ed., Evolution, Rationality and Cognition, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Evolution cognition rationality
2008/4/15
Evolution, Rationality, and Cognition, A Cognitive Science for the Twenty-First Century, is a fine collection of essays edited by António Zilhão. Most essays are written by prominent philosophe...
Hsp90-Induced Evolution: Adaptationist, Neutralist, and Developmentalist Scenarios
adaptationist developmental buffer evo-devo
2008/4/14
Recent work on the heat-shock protein Hsp90 by Rutherford and Lindquist (1998) has been included among the pieces of evidence taken to show the essential role of developmental processes in evolution; ...
CONTINUOUS VS DISCRETE PROCESSES: THE PROBABILISTIC EVOLUTION OF SINGLE TRAPPED IONS
quantum evolution atomic transitions continuity vs discretness
2008/4/11
The evolution of a single trapped ion exhibiting intermittent fluorescence and dark periods may be described either as a continuous process, using differential rate equations, or discretely, as a Mark...