Prominent among the defenders of natural selection was the German biologistAugust Weismann, who in the 1880s published hisgerm plasm theory. He distinguished two substances that make up an organism: thesoma, whichcomprisesmost body parts and organs, and the germ plasm, which contains the cells th...
Group selection, in biology, a type of natural selection that acts collectively on all members of a given group. Group selection may also be defined as selection in which traits evolve according to the fitness (survival and reproductive success) of group
Through the process of adaptation, natural selection shapes the variety of life that exists around us. This lesson will explore some of the ways this process can take place. Variation, Adaptation, and Natural Selection A population of beetles lives in a field with red flowers. The beetles live...
AdaptationismEvolutionary PsychologyGradualismMindsScienceFodor, JIn Chapter Five of The Mind Doesn't Work That Way , Jerry Fodor argues that since it is likely that human minds evolved quickly as saltations rather than gradually as the product of an accumulation of small mutations, evolutionary ...
Behavioral genetic variation, adaptation and maladaptation: an evolutionary perspective Evolutionary psychology seeks to understand the adaptive, evolved nature of humans by considering the forces of natural selection that gave rise to it. Ind... Steven,W.,Gangestad,... - 《Trends in Cognitive Scienc...
Adaptations, exaptations, and spandrels Adaptation and natural selection are central concepts in the emerging science of evolutionary psychology. Natural selection is the only known causal proces... DM Buss,MG Haselton,TK Shackelford,... - 《American Psychologist》 被引量: 696发表: 1998年 Sex, ...
The chapter provides examples to explain how the adaptedness of a trait relates to its evolutionary history and how it relates to the process of adaptation. It also examines the experimental evolution of bacteria, peppered moths, and Darwin's finches, which shows that natural selection in ...
As AI agents begin to understand human psychology and behavior, they may become capable of manipulating or deceiving humans (some would argue that this is already happening in algorithmic recommender systems [5]). The most successful agents will manipulate and deceive in order to fulfill their ...
natural selection 4 Adaptive trait / adaptation 不知道? 此学习集的词语(4) Fitness # of offsprings Adaptive trait / adaptation a trait that increases an individual's fitness. Acclimation the physiological adjustment of an organism to environmental change (学出来的,不可遗传) natural selection Surviv...
Previous research has found few quantitative differences between children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and well-matched controls ... JJ Diehl,Loisa Bennetto PhD,EC Young - 《Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology》 被引量: 243发表: 2006年 Transcriptional transgene silencing and...