It is
called natural selection and is only a matter of time.
This, you will recognize, is what Darwin
called natural selection, and it's the way life diversifies.
It is the combination of randomness and the winnowing process
called natural selection that is offered as an answer by neo-Darwinists.
Today,
we call this natural selection.
Yet deep distrust of our moral impulses is still in order, says Wright, because you could hardly
call natural selection soft - hearted.
This is what
we call natural selection.
Whether
you call it natural selection, survival of the fittest, or simply a case of the cream rising to the top; today's minivans are by far the best ever offered.
Not exact matches
Stephen Barr criticizes me for confusing two very different things: the modest scientific theory of neo-Darwinism (which he defines as «the idea that the mainspring of evolution is
natural selection acting on random genetic variation») and what he
calls the «theological» claim that evolution is an «unguided, unplanned» process.
In fact, Dawkins book was
called the BLIND watchmaker for that very fact, as he argues the OPPOSITE... that in fact the design shows clear evidence of
natural selection, not of a creator.
You see its
called we already won
natural selection with evolving.
`... we now need to consider how the discovery of «
natural cooperation» — as what Martin Nowak
calls the «third fundamental principle of evolution» (alongside mutation and
natural selection)-- might (help)... theology and metaphysics (need) together (to) strive to complete the vision toward which evolutionary cooperation seemingly gestures... the phenomenon of cooperation... provides a significant modification of the «nature red in tooth and claw» image that Darwinism early accrued to itself...
(
Natural Selection) they
call it..!?
The tradition continues because of a wonderful concept
called «
Natural Selection.»
That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I
call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which
natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.
To explore further, Timothy Coulson of Imperial College London and colleagues modified a formula
called the Price equation, which describes how
natural selection changes a population from one generation to the next.
The initiative,
called Safe Genes, comes at a time when so -
called «gene drive» systems, which override the standard rules of gene inheritance and
natural selection, are raising hopes among some scientists that the technology could alter or suppress populations of disease - carrying insects or other pests in as few as 20 generations.
In 1924, this man Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo - Polyansky wrote a book
called Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution, in which he reconciled Darwin's
natural selection as the eliminator and symbiogenesis as the innovator.
The dominant theory of evolution (often
called neo-Darwinism) holds that new species arise through the gradual accumulation of random mutations, which are either favored or weeded out by
natural selection.
To Margulis, random mutation and
natural selection are just cogs in the gears of evolution; the big leaps forward result from mergers between different kinds of organisms, what she
calls symbiogenesis.
We did not find any evidence for a so -
called «positive
selection» but instead found that many gene variants linked to schizophrenia reside in regions of the genome in which
natural selection is not very effective in the first place.
Because grasshoppers often share habitats with a number of other grasshopper species,
natural selection has driven each to stand out from the others when
calling.
These two individuals simply had the good fortune of successfully passing on specific portions of their DNA,
called the Y chromosome and the mitochondrial genome, through the millennia to most of us, while the corresponding sequences of others have largely died out due to
natural selection or a random process
called genetic drift.
And Michael Logan, an evolutionary ecologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City,
calls the work «the most comprehensive demonstration of
natural selection to date» on how body temperature is regulated.
For instance, the theory of kin
selection — helping your relatives so your genes will be reproduced — can be illustrated by a formula
called «Hamilton's rule,» which explains when a behavior or trait will be favored by
natural selection.
For one such project, the team developed a new software tool
called GppFst that allows researchers to differentiate genetic drift — a neutral process whereby genes and gene sequences naturally change due to random mating within a population — from genetic variations that are indicative of evolutionary changes caused by
natural selection.
Background Over millions and millions of years, all of the different species have come to look and act the way they do through a process
called evolution by
natural selection.
There is a species of moth in England
called the peppered moth, whose story helps to illustrate the idea of evolution by
natural selection.
Hare and his colleagues
call this phenomenon of
natural selection for more cooperative behavior «self - domestication.»
Smolin has utilized Darwinian concepts to shape a theory of the universe that he
calls «cosmological
natural selection.»
The gene for these muscle transporters,
called SLC2A4, also underwent
natural selection in humans, but in the opposite direction.
These characteristics include a heritable change to gene expression
called methylation, increases in complexity in the absence of
natural selection, and certain molecular changes Louis has recently studied.
And from these spiders» tangled webs, the researchers have uncovered the first - ever field - based evidence for a biological mechanism
called «group
selection» contributing to local adaptation in
natural populations.
A type of
natural selection,
called «stabilizing
selection,» is thought to maintain functional characteristics in species.
He
calls Eagly and Wood's theory «bizarre» for positing that «
natural selection has shaped sex differences in male and female bodies, but not in male and female brains and the psychological adaptations those brains contain.»
Pagel attributes the bursts of genetic change not just to
natural selection, but also to an additional phenomenon
called genetic drift, in which some genetic changes become incorporated into the genome even if they are not beneficial.
SELEX uses
natural selection to find the small strands of DNA
called aptamers (the other dancers) that bind specifically to the target.
The 1 - day conference,
called the Origin Summit, will include eight workshops, including discussion of how evolutionary theory influenced Adolf Hitler's worldview, why «the big bang is fake,» and why «
natural selection is NOT evolution.»
This so -
called Cambrian explosion kept Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, awake at night, as he worried that his theory of
natural selection couldn't explain the sudden proliferation of species.
Ecologists
call this one - way process «succession» and say it rules the unfolding of ecosystems much as
natural selection rules evolution.
I wonder why he thinks
natural selection endowed only humans with these things
called minds.
The sudden burst of new life is also
called «Darwin's dilemma» because it appears to contradict Charles Darwin's hypothesis of gradual evolution by
natural selection.
Natural selection should eliminate such behaviors, yet there are many examples (alarm
calling in squirrels, helpers at the nest in scrub jays, sterile worker castes in honey bees etc.) in which animals appear to cooperate despite an apparent disadvantage to the donor.
-- Unwillingness to approach and discuss armchair philosophy topics like the meaning of dreams or whether Darwin's Theory of Evolution should be
called a theory of variation through
natural selection etc..
With Darwin Dating you can't officially join the fray until you're voted in by all the other beautiful people, a process they
call (predictably enough),
natural selection.
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In reality, hunter - gatherers were unbelievably skilled (a point also made by Jared Diamond in his classic Guns, Germs and Steel, in which, if I recollect correctly, he makes a compelling case that as a result of
natural selection and their environment, the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea are, on average, more intelligent than so
called «first world *» inhabitants).
It does all of this without needing to
call on some divine creator, because
natural selection is a theory that can explain how nature makes marvels without intentional / conscious thought; it can explain how nature makes marvels mindlessly.
It does all of this without needing to
call on some divine creator, because
natural selection is a theory that can explain how nature makes marvels without intentional...
Yet even
natural selection, as we currently understand it, can not explain how you came to be able to sit there and read this book; and that is because first, there's no
call for you to be smart enough to read, and second, you shouldn't be wasting your time on this anyway when there are berries to pick and mates to bonk.